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PREFACE. 



The following selection has been arranged according 
to the natural succession of topics. If this principle of 
classification, — thought to be the most simple and per- 
spicuous, — has been followed out with the precision 
aimed at, it will in a great measure supersede to the 
reader, who has become familiar with it, the necessity 
of an Index. That appendage has however been fur- 
nished. Two objects have been principally kept in view 
in this work, — to embrace all those pieces which had 
the claim of long-established favour, or though less 
known, of sufficient merit, to be regarded as standard de- 
votional poetry ; and also, as far as possible, all that 
variety of subject which public instructions, or domes- 
tic and personal circumstances require. Hence may 
have arisen a redundancy on some topics ; or the in- 
sertion of individual hymns which were deemed worthy 
of a place not so much from their poetical merit, as 
from the sentiments they contain. To accumulate far- 
ther than these rules required, would be a needless en- 
largement of the work ; and the evil of deficiency, if 
indeed it can be longer felt, is more easily remedied than 
that of unlimited copiousness. 

As that praise which with some, probably, attaches to 
a compilation of this kind from the number of origin- 
als with which it is graced, is no part of the compiler's 
ambition, it is proper to apprize the reader that the 
hymns which appear as anonymous, are such as from 
the changes and combinations they have undergone, 
or from other causes, do not easily admit of any name 
being affixed to them. In many of the remainder, altera- 
tions have been made by the present compiler, and more 
frequently have been adopted from those who preceded 
him. In regard to the last, the authors of these changes 
are of course so numerous, and often so uncertain, that 



PREFACE. 

(o discriminate them is impossible, and this general ac- 
knowledgment of obligation only can be made. 

The compiler would indulge the hope that taste will 
be found in this volume the hand-maid to devotion ; yet 
here he has learned to think and speak with diffidence. 
The character of too many of the recent efforts in devo- 
tional poetry, evinces that this union is indeed a rare 
and high attainment; and not less, that any extreme of 
harsh and prosaical expression can be more easily tol- 
erated and forgiven, than the sickly and finical elegance 
into which solicitude on this point so often degenerates. 
It is pertinent also to remark in this connexion, that 
practical utility has been ever kept in mind, as what is 
or should be, the only aim of a work like this. Those 
pieces have in consequence been deemed far foreign 
from the compiler's design, which, from the names 
they bear, might indeed recommend this volume to 
the mere reader of taste, but were never intended by 
their authors, and are wholly unsuited for purposes of 
psalmody. 

While the compiler trusts that a sectarian spirit does 
jiot appear in this selection, he has not been insensible, 
id preparing it, to the influence of such a work on the 
interests of truth as well as of piety. It is not to be ex- 
pected therefore, that it can meet with very general ac- 
ceptance. But while it has been his earnest desire and 
endeavour to preserve the pure faith of the gospel, he 
is not conscious of thereby departing from its spirit; or 
of neglecting to render this offering to the cause of 
Christ, inoffensive as far as may be, to his followers oi' 
every name. 

Cambridge, July 11, 1824. 



iNto* of jFCvst Sines* 



Absurd and vain attempt, to bind Scott. 

Again our weekly labours end Cappe's Sel. 

Again the Lord of life and light Mrs. Barbauld. 

Ah ! why should this mistaken mind Mrs. Steele. 
Ah ! worldly souls, who strive in vain Mrs. Steele. 
All nature dies and lives again Logan. 

All nature feels attractive power Drennan. 

All-powerful, self-existent God Walker's Col. 

All-seeing God ! 'tis thine to know Scott. 

Amidst a world of hopes and fears Henry Moore. 
And art thou with us, gracious Lord Doddridge. 

And is the gospel peace and love Mrs. Steele. 

And is there then, no lenient art Mrs. Steele. 

And must this body die Watts 

And now my soul, another year Browne. 

And wilt thou, great and glorious God 
Angel, roll the stone away 
Arise, my soul, extend thy wings 
Arise, my soul ! on wings sublime 
Arise, O God of grace ! arise 
Author of being ! when thy word 
Author of life ! with reason's dawn 
Awake, my torpid soul ! awake 
Awake, my soul ! and with the sun 
Awake, my soul ! lift up thine eyes 
Awake, my soul ! shake off the dream 
Awake, my soul ! stretch every nerve 
Awake, my soul ! to hymns of praise 

B 
Before Jehovah's awful throne 
Behold the amazing sight 
Behold the grace appeal* 



Scott. 

Doddridge. 

Gibbons. 

Watts. 

P 

Logan. 

Doddridge. 

Kenn. 

Mrs. Barbauld. 

Browne. 

Doddridge. 

Merrick. 

Watts. 

Doddridge. 

WaHs 



188 
7 

20 
236 
239 
287 
179 

87 
189 
242 

91 
139 
234 
280 
331 
343 
130 
292 
264 
344 

51 
174 
247 
368 
250 
196 
255 

38 

6 
137 

310 



INDEX OF FIRST LINES. 

Behold the Prince of Peace .Yeedham. 116 

Behold, where in a mortal form Enfield. 140 
Behold where breathing love divine Mrs. Barbauld. 180 

Be thou exalted, O my God Watts. 48 

Beset with snares and filled with dread Doddridge. 246 

Blessed are the sons of peace Watts. 356 

" Blessed are the meek," he said Exeter Col. 195 

Bless'd be the everlasting God Watts. 289 

Bless'd Instructor ! from thy ways Merrick. 205 

Bless the God of our salvation Exeter Col. 305 

Bless, O my soul ! the living God Waits, 61 

Blest is the man who fears the Lord Exeter Col. 216 

Blest is the man who slums the place Watts. 221 

Blest is the man whose heart is kind Watts. 314 

Blest is the man who stands in awe Tate. 229 
Blest hour when virtuous friends Liv. P. S. Col. 320 

Bright orb of heaven, thy circuit stay Butcher. 290 

Broad is the road that leads to death Watts. 244 



Can creatures to perfection find Watts. 

Canst thou, my soul ! forget that friend 
Celestial worlds your maker's name Williams' 1 Col. 
Come let us search our ways and try Walts. 



Come, said Jssus' sacred voice Mrs. Barbauld. 

Come to the house of Prayer Miss E. Taylor. 

Courage ! ye partners in distress C. Wesley. 

Creation's God ! on thee alone Merrick. 

E 
Eat, drink, in memory of your Birmingham Col. 

Enough of life's vain scene 1 've trod Walker. 

Enquire, ye pilgrims, for the way Doddridge. 

Eternal and Almighty King Doddridge. 

Eternal God! Almighty cause Browne. 

Eternal Power, whose high abode Walts. 

Eternal source of every joy Doddridge. 

E'enia! source of light and thought Cappe's Sel. 

F 

Faith adds new charms to earthly Salisbury Col. 

Far from mortal cares retreating J. Taylor. 

Ear from thy servants, God of 'grace Doddridge. 

Ear from those scenes of night Mrs. Steele. 

Ear from the world, O Lord ! I flee Cowpen, 
Father adored in worlds above 



84 
299 

30 
1/6 
128 

23 
275 

46 

306 

158 
4 

149 
81 
25 

342 
75 

237 
22 
178 
295 
199 
131 



INDEX OF FIRST LINES. 



Father divine ! before thy view J. Taylor. 

Father divine ! thy gracious power Liv. R. S. Col. 
Father divine ! thy piercing eye Doddridge. 

Father ! I thank th^e, may no thought JV. 

Father ! and is thy tahle spread Doddridge. 

Father in heaven ! thy sacred Liv. Par. S. Col. 

Father of all ! thy cares extend Pope 

Father of hira we own our Lord Watts 

Father of light ! conduct my feet Smart. 

Father of lights ! my footsteps guide Scott. 

Father of lights ! we sing thy name Doddriidgc. 

Father of men ! thy care we bless Doddridge. 

Father of mercies ! in thy word Mrs. Steele. 

Father of our feeble race J. Taylor. 

Father supreme of heaven and earth 
Fountain of blessing! God of love Salisbury Col. 
Frail life of man ! how short its stay Henry Moore. 
From depths of sadness and distress Denham. 

From north and south, from east and west Butcher. 
From this worlds joys and senseless mirth Bowden. 

G 
Give me the w T ings of faith to rise 
Give to the w r inds thy fears 



Glory to thee, my God ! this night 

God moves in a mysterious way 

God, my supporter and my hope 

God of eternity ! from thee 

God of mercy ! God of love 

God of my life ! thro' all its days 

God of my life ! my thanks to thee 

God of our lives ! thy constant care 

God of the morning ! at thy voice 

God of the universe, whose hand 

God to correct the world 

Great Author of all nature's frame 

Great Cause of all things ! source of life 

Greatest of beings ! source of life 

Great Former of this various frame 

Great Framer of unnumbered worlds 

Great God! at whose all-powerful call Enfield's'Sel 

Great God ! how infinite art thou Waits. 

Great God ! how vast is thine abode Jervis. 

Great God ! in vain man's narrow view Kippis. 



Watts. 
C. Wesley. 
J. Taylor. 
Kenn. 
Coivper. 
Watts. 
Doddridge. 
J. Taylor. 
Doddridge. 
Browne. 
Doddridge. 
Watts. 
W. Taylor. 
Jervis. 
Scott. 
Dyer. 
Dyer. 
Doddridge. 
Dyer. 



60 
349 
170 
301 

78 

70 
141 
241 
248 

59 
318 
143 
177 
340 

74 
261 
212 
293 
297 

142 

110 

1 

370 

108 

160 

267 

206 

67 

55 

329 

365 

42 

338 

155 

40 

33 

260 

335 

327 

86 

93 

83 



INDEX OP FIRST LINES. 

Great God of grace ! accept my Walker's Col. 184 

Great God of grace! arise and shine Needham. 138 

Great God ! thy peerless excellence Browne. 150 

Great Lord of angels ! we adore Doddridge. 345 

Great Ruler of all nature's frame Liv. R. S. Col. 223 
Gieat Ruler of the earth and skies Mrs. Steele. 339 

Great Source of life ! our souls confess Doddridge. 64 

H 
Hail, great Creator! wise and good Liv. Old Col. 28 
Hnil the day that sees him rise Salisbury Col. 132 

Happy the heart where graces reign Waits. 181 

Happy the meek, whose gentle breast Scott. 194 

Hark! it is wisdom's voice Doddridge. 3"5 

Hark ! the glad sound ! the Saviour comes Doddridge. 117 
Hark! what celestial sounds Salisbury Col. 309 

Heavenly Father! Sovereign Lord Salisbury Col. 16 
Hear, Lord ! the song of praise and prayer Cowper. 316 
Hear what God the Lord hath spoken Cowper. 136 

hear what the voice from heaven 
He dies, the friend of sinners dies 
He that has made his refuge God 
High in the heavens, eternal God 
House of our God, with cheerful anthe 
How are thy servants blest, O Lord 
How blest the sacred tie that binds 
How happy is he born and taught. 
How rich thy gifts, Almighty King 
How still and peaceful is the grave 
How vast is the tribute I owe 
How vast thy works, Almighty Lord 
How well our great protector knows 

I 
1 love thy Zion, Lord 
Imposture shrinks from li°ht 
Jesus is gone above the sky 
Jesus, the friend of man 

L 

Let all creation humbled lie 
Let all thy realms, O earth ! rejoice 
Let coward guilt with pallid fear 
Let men of high conceit and zeal 
Let one loud song of praise arise 



Weils. 


2S6 


Walts. 


131 


Watts. 


318 


Tate. 


43 


;ms Doddridge. 


32S 


Jiddison. 


104 


Mrs. Barbauid 


357 


Wotton. 


359 


Kip pis. 


341 


Scotch Par. 


285 


Jc.-vis. 


5S 


Merrick. 


99 


Merrick. 


224 


Ev. Luth. Col. 


353 


Scott. 


146 


Waits. 


302 


Waits. 


304 


Watts. 


96 


Tate. 


6 


Mrs. Carter. 


362 


Broiviu. 


182 


Roscoe. 


50 



INDEX OF FIRST LINES. 



Let parly names no more 

Let us with a joyful mind 

Let songs of praise from all below 

Life is a spau, a fleeting hour 

Life is the time to serve thee, Lord 

Like shadows gliding o'er the plain 

Look round, O man ! survey this globe 

Lo ! God is here ; let us adore 

Lo ! another year is gone 

Lo ! Israel's shepherd stands 

Lord, before thy presence come 



Beddome. 18*7 
Milton. 44 
363 
Mrs. Steele. 322 
Watts. 240 
J. Taylor. 266 
Liv. Old Col. 29 
Salisbury Col. 24 
Olney Hymns. 333 
Doddridge. 307 
J. Taylor. 21 
Lord, I am thine ; but thou wilt prove Watts. 273 

Lord! in the morning thou shalt hear Walts. JS 

Lord ! how secure and blest is he Olney Hymns. 220 
Lord of life, all praise excelling 313 

Lord of my life ! each morn on thee Liv. Old Col. 369 
Lord of the sabbath ! hear our vows Doddridge. 26 
Lord of the worlds above Watts. 12 

Lord of the world's majestic frame Jervis. 31 

Lord ! thou art good ; all nature shows Brotvne. 94 
Lord ! thou hast searched and seen me thro' Watts. 90 
Lord, thro' the dubious path of life Exeter Col. 253 

Lord ! we adore thy vast designs Watts 109 

Lord ! we have made thy word our choice Watts. 144 
Lord ! what our ears have heard Waits. 308 

Lord ! while my thoughts with wonder Mrs. Steele. 155 
Lord, who's the happy man that may Tate. 11 

M 
Mark the soft-falling snow Doddridge. 

May all the various tribes of men Tate. 

My Father ! cheering name Mrs. Steele. 

My Father and my King Mrs. Steele. 



My God ! all nature owns thy sway Miss. Williams. 
My God ! how r endless is thy love Walts. 

My God, my King ! thy various praise Walts. 

My God, permit me not to be Watts. 

My God ! the covenant of thy love Doddridge. 

My God ! permit my tongue Walls. 

My God ! the visits of thy face Mrs Steele. 

My God ! thy service well demands Doddridge. 

My God ! what inward grief I feel Watts* 

My God ! whose all-pervading eye Watts. 

My God ! whose all-pervading eye Doddridge. 

My God ! thy boundless love I praise Henry Moure. 



119 

41 

151 

53 
164 

3<>4 
47 
201 
230 
163 
233 
360 
204 
186 
161 
66 



INDEX OP FIRST LINES. 



My heart and all my ways, God Arbuckle. 

My soul, praise the Lord Park. 

My soul shall praise thee, my God Heginbotham. 
JVly soul ! spring up with ardent flight Doddridge. 
My soul ! the awful hour will come Doddridge. 

My soul, inspired with sacred love Tale. 

My sovereign ! to thy throne Doddridge. 

O 
O blest are they who born from heaven 
O blest is he, divinely blest. 
O come, and to the almighty King 
O Father ! though the anxious fear 
O for an overcoming faith 
O God of Bethel ! by whose hand 
O God of grace ! oft has our land 
O God of mercy ! hear, forgive 
O God of our forefathers ! hear 
O God ! on thee we all depend 
O God ! our father and our King 
O God ! our help in ages past 
O God ! thou just and kind 
O God thy gracious aid impart 



Mrs. 



Doddridge. 
Blacklock. 
Tate. 
Barbauld. 
Watts. 
Doddridge. 
Exeter Col. 
Watts. 
Salisbury Col. 
Browne. 
Browne. 
Walts. 
Patrick. 
Birmingham Col. 



O God ! to whose all-searching sight 
O God ! while nature speaks thy praise Mrs. Steele. 
O happy is the man who hears Logan. 

O happy soul that lives on high Watts. 

O here, if ever, God of love Miss E. Taylor. 

O how shall words with equal warmth Addison. 

O let us with a grateful mind Cotton. 

O Lord ! how excellent thy name Grove. 

O Lord ! my best desires fulfil Cowper. 

O Lord of earth, and seas, and skies Browne. 

O Lord ! to earth's contracted span Pope. 

On God supreme our hope depends C. Wesley 

O praise ye the Lord Tate. 

O source of uncreated light Dryden. 

O that the Lord wo;:ld guide my ways Watts. 

O the abundance of thine house Cotton. 

O there 's a better world on high W. Boston Col. 
O thou ! before whose gracious throne Rippon's Col 
O thou ! from whom all blessings Salisbury Col. 
O thou, my earliest, latest hope Walls. 

O thou, my father and my friend Exeter Col 

thou, the wretch ed's sure retreat Mrs. Carter. 



92 
32 

63 
263 
279 

62 
361 

164 
222 
2 
8 
278 
252 
336 
209 
254 
102 
183 
269 

73 
203 
200 

39 
354 
219 
303 

57 
190 

97 
168 
101 

77 
113 

49 

15 
238 
351 
274 
346 
311 
172 
192 
214 



INDEX OF FIRST LINES. 

O thou, through all thy works adored Enfield. 86 

O thou ! whose all-discerning eye Watts. 14 

O thou ! whose mercy hears Mrs. Sleek. 210 

O ye who seek Jehovah's face J. Taylor. 315 

Our country is Immanuel's ground Mrs. Barbauld. 251 

Our God as merciful as just Mrs. Barbauld. 152 

Our life advancing to its close Merrick. 332r 



Parent of all ! omniscient mind 
Parent of all, omnipotent 
Parent of good ! we rest on thee 
Patience, O 'tis a grace divine 
Peace, 'tis the Lord Jehovah's hand 
Perpetual source of light and grace 
Praise, everlasting praise be paid 
Praise to God, the great creator 
Praise to God, immortal praise 
Praise to his grace, who loud proclaims 
Praise to the Lord of boundless might 
Providence, profusely kind 



Blacklock. 

Walker. 

Merrick. 

Rippon's Col. 

Watts. 

Doddridge. 

Watts. 

J. Taylor 125 

Mrs. Barbauld. 52 

Doddridge 

Doddridge 

Mrs. Steele 



89 
185 
171 
193 

166 
208 
232 



115 
114 

257 



Raise your triumphant songs Watts. 124 
Remark, my soul ! the narrow bounds Doddridge. 330 

Return, my roving heart, return Doddridge. 198 

S 

Searcher of hearts ! my thoughts Ev. Luth. Col. 207 

Shine forth, eternal source of light Doddridge. 148 

Shine on our souls, eternal God Doddridge. 153 

Sing to the Lord, ye distant lands Watts. 118 

Sing, ye redeemed of the Lord Doddridge. 129 

Soft are the fruitful showers Henry Moore. 235 

So let our lips and lives express Watts. 202 

Supreme and universal light Henry Moore. 72 

Sweet is the friendly voice Jervis. 213 

T 

That awful hour will soon arrive Mrs. Steele. 272 

The evils that beset our path Olney Hymns. 262 

Thee we adore, eternal name Doddridge. 268 

The gifts indulgent heaven bestows Mrs. Steele. Ill 

The God of heaven is kind and just Jervis. 227 

The heavens declare thy glory, Lord Walts. 133 

The heart dejected sighs to know JVeedham. 291 

The highest heaven cannot contain Drennan. 350 



INDEX OP FIRST LINES. 



The Lord ! how tender is his love Darwin. 165 

The Lord my pasture shall prepare Jlddison. 103 

The man whose faith and hope are strong Earle. 358 
The morning flowers display their sw T eets C. Wesley. 271 
There is a God, all nature speaks Mrs. Steele. 80 

There is a glorious world on high Mrs. Steele. 296 

There is a house not made with hands Walts. 282 

There is a land of pure delight Watts. 294 

The rising morn, the closing day Mrs. Steele. 325 

The rolling year, Almighty Lord Needham. 326 

The sacred joy that virtue brings Mrs. Carter. 215 

The spacious firmament on high Jlddison. 79 

The starry hosts in order move Grove. 98 

The swift-declining day Doddridge. 265 

The traveller lost in night Mrs. Steele. 121 

This feast was Jesus' high behest Enfield's Sel. 298 

This is the day the Lord of life Cotton. 17 

Those happy realms of peace and joy Mrs. Steele. 283 
Thou, God of mercy ! wilt indulge Salisbury Col. 321 
Thou God. who reignst alone Drummond. 82 

Thou great Creator, Father, Lord Mrs. Steele. 100 

Thou great and sacred Lord of all Williams' Col. 71 

Thou Lord by mortal eyes unseen Mason. 122 

Thou Lord through every changing Doddridge. 259 

Thou power by whose command I live Mrs. Carter. 54 
Thou who dwell'st enthroned above Sandys. 45 

Thou, who with wide and absolute Mrs. Barbauld. 88 
Thou unseen power, arrayed Henry K. White. 37 

Though earthly shepherds dwell in dust Doddridge. 347 
Through all the various shifting scene Liv. Old Col. 105 
Through all the changing scenes of life Tate. 231 

The uplifted eye and bended knee 175 

Thus far, thou Lord! hast led me on Watts. 371 

To calm the sorrows of the mind Jervis. 228 

To God let fervent prayers arise Watts. 135 

To Thee, let my first offerings rise Drennan. 367 

To Thee, O God ! my days are known Doddridge. 157 
To Thee, O God ! my prayer ascends Mrs. Rotce. 69 
To Thee, O God ! we homage pay Doddridge. 120 

To Thee, Supreme, eternal mind Mrs. Carter. 70 

To your Greator God Mrs. Steele. 27 

Triumphant, Lord ! thy goodness reigns Doddridge. 95 

U 
Unveil thy bosom, faithful tomb Watts. 327 

Upward we lift our eyes Watts. 313 



INDEX OP FIRST LINES. 

W 

Weak and irresolute is maD Cowper. 243 

We hail the glorious day Waits. 19 

We own the grace divine Watts. 3 

What countless myriads draw their breath Scott. 126 
What eyes like thine, eternal Sire Merrick. 112 

What glory gilds thy word Cowper. 145 

What pleasure, Lord ! thy house attends Wails. 13 

What shall we render, God of love Ev. Luth. Col. 312 
What tho' downy slumbers flee Doddridge. 372 

What works of wisdom, power, and love Butcher. 123 
When a few years or days perhaps Hawkesworth . 270 
When all the powers of nature fail Jervis. 276 

When all thy mercies ! O my God Addison. 56 

When as returns this solemn day Mrs. Barbauld. 9 

When darkness long has veiled my mind Cowper. 167 
When fancy spreads her boldest wings Mrs. Steele. 25S 
When from the verge of youth, my mind Merrick. 249 
When gloomy thoughts and boding fears Mrs. Steele. 226 
When in the light of faith divine Watts. 256 

When in the vale of lengthened years 173 

When life's tempestuous storms W. Boston Col. 284 

When opening life its scenes unfolds 352 

When present sufferings pain our hearts Mrs. Steele. 169 
When reft of all and hopeless care Drummond. 225 

When rising from the bed of death Addison. 211 

When sickness shakes the lamruid Heginbotiiam. 277 

When storms hang o'er the christian's Heginbotiiam. 218 
When the last trumpet's awful voice Scottish Par. 288 
Wherefore should man, frail child of clay Enfield. 197 
Wherewith shall I approach thee, Lo r d Browne. 10 

While beauty cloths the fertile vale Mrs Steele. 324 

While raptured saints adoring stand Collett. 68 

While some in folly's pleasures roll Cotton. 217 

While sounds of war are heard around Aikin. 337 

While with ceaseless course, the sun Olney Hymns. 334 
While thee I seek, protecting power Miss Williams 159 
While through life's pilgrimage I stray Merrick. 147 






INDEX OP FIRST LINES. 

While to the grave our friends are borne Mrs. Steele- 319 

Who, gracious father ! can complain 

Why do 1 thus perplex 

Why do we waste in trifling cares 

W T ith ecstacy of joy 

With eye impartial, heaven's high King 

With grateful heart and cheerful tongue 

With grateful joy, O man, record 

With pleasing wonder, Lord ! we view 

With sleep's oblivion o'er me spread 

Y 

Ye followers of the Prince of peace 
Ye golden lamps of heaven, farewell 
Ye weak inhabitants of clay 



Scott. 


106 


Scott. 


191 


Doddridge. 


245 


Doddridge. 


127 


$ Need ham. 


107 


e Ggiivie. 


35 


Doddridge. 


34 


Doddridge. 


65 


Hawkesworth. 


366 


Bed dome. 


300 


Doddridge. 


281 


Doddridge. 


85 



Xntrrv of Subjects, 



INTRODUCTION OF PUBLIC WORSHIP. 1-26. 

Worship of the One Supreme, 2. Of the God of holi- 
ness, 18. The House of God, invitation to, 4, 23. 
God's presence in, 24. The Christian Sabbath, 7. 
The heavenly Rest, 26. Worship, accepted of God, 
9, 10, II, 175. Sincerity essential to such, 14. The 
Lord's day of the christian, 17, J9, 20. Public wor- 
ship, delight in, 12, 13. Privation of its privileges, 
351. Unfruitfulness under its privileges, 203. 

GENERAL PRAISE, &c. Praise to the God of crea- 
tion, 27-38, 44, 46. The power and greatness of God 
in the elements, 36, 37, 38. God's universal Provi- 
dence celebrated, 39-43, 59, 60, 64. God worthy of 
exalted and perpetual praise, 16, 25, 45 — 51. Grateful 
praise for personal mercies and blessings, 52 — 67. In 
prosperity and adversity, 52. For creation, 54. For 
consolation and health, 58. Prayer for the gifts of pro- 
vidence and grace generally, 68-78. For spiritual bless- 
ings and Christian graces in particular, 15, 69, 72, 74, 
75. The universal prayer, 76, 77. The Lord's prayer, 
78. 

GOD. Declared in his works, 29, 30, 79, 80. The One 
Supreme, 2. The only God, 81, 82. Invisible, 149. 
His majesty, 85. Beyond our comprehension. 83, 84. 
Infinite and eternal, 86. His unchangeable existence, 
87, 8S, 260. His universal presence and knowl- 
edge, S9-93. His universal goodness, 66, 94, 95, 
101. The Creator, 97. Preserver of the course of 



INDEX OF SUBJECTS* 

nature, 98. His foreknowledge and decrees, 96. His 
moral purity and perfection, 150. His constant and 
paternal providence, 99-105, His providence crown- 
ing the labours of life, 153. Equity of his govern- 
ment, 106, 110. Course of his providence mvsterious, 
108,109. The refuge of his servants, 113, 218. No 
respecter of persons, 107. The protector of innocence 
and weakness, 61, 112. The guardian of successive 
generations, 259. The only Lord of conscience, 188. 
Benignant under every dispensation of religion, 115. 
Chastisements of his providence kindly designed, 223, 
224, 225. His paternal character, 102, 151. His mercy 
the reliance of the penitent, 209 — 214. The desire and 
portion of bis people, 160, 161. Seen in all things, 164. 
The searcher of hearts, 207. The Supreme good, 258. 
The source of consolation, 228. His peculiar good- 
ness to his people, 65. The leader of his people, 254. 

JESUS CHRIST. His nativity, 309, 310. Thelight of the 
world, 114, 116. The image of the invisible God, 122. 
The messenger of pardon and peace, 124 His mission, 
117. His first and second coming, 118. His miracu- 
lous character, 123. His death and resurrection, 130, 
181. His exaltation, 132. His example, 139-142. 
Fidelity to him, 299. Invitations of mercy through 
him, 128. Influence of his sufferings, 137. Our im- 
mortality assured by his death and resurrection, 278, 
280, 288, 289. His ministry an uniform expression 
of love to mankind, 304. The highway to Zion, 
prepared by his mission, 229. His gospel, moral 
efficacy of, 119, 120, 121. Benignity displayed in, 
125. Privileges and obligations. 106, 126. Its privi- 
leges unimproved, 203. Adorned and promoted by 
the examples of its professors, 202. A perfect law 
of liberty, 203. Its future triumphs and progress, 
133-136. Prayer for its diffusion, 138. His church a 
living temple, 127. 

THE SACRED SCRIPTURES. Their power, 145. In- 
structions and comforts derived from, 143, 144. To 
be studied with meekness and with freedom of mind, 
146. Li^ht and knowledge on the truths they contain, 
desired,70, 75, 141, 147, 148. 



INDEX OF SUBJECTS, 



CHRISTIAN CHARACTER. Pious affections, 149-164. 
God, devout aspirations towards, 152,163. Imitation 
of, 150. Fear of, 155. Trust in, 162, 165. Faith and 
hope in, 156. Habitual devotion, 157, 159. God seen 
every where in creation, 164. Submission to, under his 
corrections, 166, 168, 169, 170. Daily devotion, 154. 
Early piety, 174. Pious wishes of the aged, 172. So- 
cial virtues, 175-183. Essential to the Christian 
character, 175. Christian equity, 176. The charities 
of life, and kindly affections, 177-183. Zeal restrain- 
ed by charity, 186. Without charity, vain, 182. 
Freedom from envious and malignant passions, 71, 
176, 183, 196. Beneficent use of wealth, 184. Virtu- 
ous love of country, 185. Catholicism and candour, 
1S7, 188, 189. Social relations, the instruments of re- 
ligious improvement, 204, 356. Personal virtues, 
190-201. Contentment, 190. Patience, 193. Chris- 
tian fortitude, 238, 248. Worldly anxiety reproved, 
191. Meekness, 194, 195. Humility, 192, 197. Pu- 
rity of heart, 192, 200. Self-government, 200. Ac- 
quaintance with our own hearts, 192, 198, 205. Reli- 
gious meditation and retirement, 199, 201. Profane- 
ness mourned and condemned, 204. Personal virtues 
generally, 196, 202. A virtuous life, progressiveness 
of, 208. Inconstancy in, 208. 

THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. It=. privileges and comforts, 
215-222, 230-235. Peculiar and inward pleasures of 
the true Christian, 219, 220. Serenity of mind resting 
on piety, 216. Conscience, peace of, 217, 222. 
Power of, 355. The different issues of a virtuous 
and sinful course, 221, 222. Religion, the only effect- 
ual solace, 226, 233, 234. Attraction of a religious 
character, 235. Memory of the pious and beneficent, 
precious, 229. Happiness derived from faith, 236, 
237. From the divine promises, 231, 232. 

THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. Its difficulties and discourage- 
ments, 240-255. The divine assistance therein need- 
ed, 243. Implored, 241, 242, 248, 252-254. Aspira- 
tions after exemplary and perfect obedience, 238, 239. 
Life, the only season of probation, 240. Christian 
watchfulness, 192, 247. Perseverance in the narrow 



INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 

path, difficult, 244. Religion, the all-important cou- 
cern, 245, 246. Perils of early life, 249. The Chris- 
tian life, a warfare, 250. A race, 255. A pilgrimage, 
251, 274, 275. 

MISCELLANEOUS. Transitoriness of the present scene, 
260, 261, 262. Man, his ignorance, 171. God, the 
supreme good, 257, 258. Life, its brevity and vanity, 

266, 269, 271. Lapse of time to be improved, 265- 

267, 330, 331. Future prospects of the Christian, 
264, 273. Sickness and death anticipated, 276, 277. 
Death, triumph over, through the Gospel, 278, 280. 
The Christian farewell, 281. God, our support in, 277, 
279. The dying saint, 284. Peace of the grave, 
285, 286. The Resurrection illustrated in the natural 
creation, 287. Confirmed by that of Jesus, 288, 289. 
Consummation of the present scene, 290. The final 
retribution, 291, 292. Heaven, contemplated, 282, 
283, 294. The reward of virtuous exertions, 296. A 
rest, 26. A region of perpetual light, 281. The abode 
of all the blessed. 293. A state of perfect felicity, 
282, 294, 295, 297. 

OCCASIONAL. The Lord's supper, 298-306. Bap- 
tismal, 4, 307, 308. Christmas, 309, 310. Charity 
occasions, 312-316. Seasons of prevalent sickness, 
317, 318. For the loss of friends, or children, 319- 
323. Sickness, recovery from, 360. Prayer in, 361. 
The year, its commencement, 328-332. Its close, 
332, 333. Its several seasons, 324-327, 358. Public 
humiliation, 335, 336, 338. Changes of war and 
peace, 337, 339. Public solemn festivals, political 
or religious, 35, 49, 311, 340-342. Peculiar circum- 
stances of a christian congregation, 343-347. Do- 
mestic circumstances, 348-355. Family worship, in- 
culcated, 154, 348. Its pleasures, and good influenc- 
es, 158, 356. Secret devotion, 349, 350. Social re 
lations and enjoyments, promoted by religion, 158, 
356, 357 Religious education and the circum- 

stances of early life, 174, 349, 352, 354, 355. For the 
aged, 172, 173, 35S. For the mariner or traveller, 



INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 



363. For a thunder-storm, 362. Morning hymns, 
365-368. Morning or evening, 364, 369. Evening. 
370. 371, 372. 



ERRATA. 

H. 28, Stanza 4, for " grave" read " grove.' 

— 67, — 4, —"she" — "the." 

— 93, — 3, —"word" — " world.' 

— 174, — 2, — " avrive" — " arrive.' 

— 177, — 2, —"be" — "Ave." 

— 200, — 4, —"thou" — "then." 

— 277, — 3, —"sou" —"soul." 



HYMNS AND PSALMS. 



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FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF PUBLIC 
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Praise to the Most High God. 

i Glory be to God on high ! 
God, whose glory fills the sky ; 
Peace on earth to man forgiven, 
Man, the well-beloved of heaven : 

Glory be to God on high ! 

God, whose glory fills the sky. 

2 Favoured mortals, raise the song ; 
Endless thanks to God belong ; 
Hearts overflowing with his praise, 
Join the hymns your voices raise. 

3 Call the tribes of beings round, 
From Creation's utmost bound ; 
Where the Godhead shines confessed. 
There be solemn praise addressed 

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4 Mark the wonders of his hand ! 
Power, no empire can withstand ; 
Wisdom, angels' glorious theme ; 
Goodness, one eternal stream. 

5 Awful being ! from thy throne 
Send thy promised blessings down ; 
Let thy light, thy truth, thy peace, 
Bid our raging passions cease. 

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Praise to the One Supreme. Ps. xev. 

1 O come, and to th' Almighty King, 
Triumphant anthems let us sing ! 
To him who high enthroned in state. 
Is with unrivalled glory great. 

2 The depths of earth are in his hand, 
Her secret wealth at his command ; 
The strength of hills that threat the skies. 
Subjected to his empire lies. 

3 The rolling ocean's vast abyss 

By the same sovereign right is his ; 
7 Tis moved by that Almighty hand, 
Which formed and fixed the solid land. 

4 Above the earth, beyond the sky, 
Stands his high throne of majesty; 
Nor time, nor place, his power restrain. 
Nor bound his universal reign* 

5 O let us to his courts repair, 
And bow in adoration there ; 
To him address in joyful songs, 
The praise that to his name belongs ! 



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3. p. ii. 

Assembling to Public Worship. Ps. cxxii. 

1 We own the grace divine 
Which all unites to join, 

And praise and seek their God to day ; 

We would with cheerful zeal, 

Haste to thine holy hill, 
And there our vows and homage pay. 

2 Thrice happy is the place, 
Where God unveils his face, 

The purest pleasures there are found : 
His servants there appear 
To pray, and praise, and hear 

The sacred gospel's joyful sound. 

3 May peace attend thy gate, 
And joy within thee wait, 

To bless the soul of every guest : 
The man that seeks thy peace, 
And wishes thine increase, 

Unnumbered blessings on him rest! 

4 My soul shall pray again, 
Peace with this house remain, 

For here my friends and brethren dwell ; 

And since my Father here 

Draws to his children near, 
My soul shall ever love thee well. 

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invitation to the Sanctuary and Service of God. Jcr. i, b, 

1 Enquire, ye pilgrims, for the way 
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And thither set your steadfast face, 
With a determined will. 

2 Invite the strangers all around, 

Your pious march to join ; 
And spread the sentiments you feel 
Of faith and love divine. 

3 Come, let us to his temple haste, 

And seek his favour there ; 
Before his footstool humbly bow, 
And pour our fervent prayer. 

4 Come, let us join our souls to God, 

In everlasting bands : 
And seize the blessings he bestows, 
With eager hearts and hands. 

5 Come, let us seal, without delay, 

The covenant of his grace ; 
Nor shall the years of distant life 
Its memory efface. 

6 Thus may our rising offspring haste 

To seek their fathers' God ; 
Nor e'er forsake the happy path, 
Their youthful feet have trod. 

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Praise to the Creator. Ps. c. 1. 3 — &. 

1 Before Jehovah's awful throne, 
Ye nations, bow with sacred joy ; 
Know that the Lord is God alone ; 
He can create, and he destroy. 

2 His powerful word, which all things made ? 
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And when like wandering sheep we strayed. 
He brought us to his fold again. 

3 We are his people, we his care, 
Our nobler, and our meaner frame : 
What lasting honours can we rear, 
Almighty Maker, to thy name ? 

4 We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs; 
High as the heavens our voices raise ; 
And earth, with her ten thousand tongues, 
Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise. 

.0 Wide as the world is thy command ; 
Vast as eternity thy love ; 
Finn as thy throne thy truth will stand, 
When rolling years shall cease to move* 

6. L. M. 

Invocation to Worship. Ps. c. 

1 Let all thy realms, O earth! rejoice 
Before the Lord, their sovereign King ! 
Serve him with cheerful heart and voice 
And his unrivalled glories sing. 

2 Assured that he is God alone, 
From whom both we and all proceed ; 
We, whom he chooses for his own, 
The flock that he vouchsafes to feed. 

3 O enter then his temple gate, 
Thence to his courts devoutly press ; 
And still your grateful hymns repeat. 
And still his name with praises bless ! 

4 For he, and he alone is good. 
His mercy is for ever sure ; 

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His truth, which always firmly stood. 
To endless ages shall endure. 

7. L. M. 

The Christian Sabbath. 

1 Again our weekly labours end, 
Whilst we religion's call attend : 
Arise, my soul ; enjoy thy rest, 
Improve the hour that God has blest. 

2 This day may our devotions rise 
To heaven a grateful sacrifice ; 

May heaven that peace divine bestow, 
Which none but they who feel it, know ! 

3 In sacred duties, let the day, 
In sacred pleasures pass away : 
How sweet this day of rest to spend 
In hope of that which ne'er shall end I 

4 This holy calm within the breast, 
Is the dear pledge of endless rest, 
Which for the sons of God remains, 
The end of cares, the end of pains. 

5 O may we share a glorious part, 
When grace hath well refined the heart, 
And doubts and fears no more remain^ 
To break our inward peace again. 

6 Then shall we see, and hear, and know, 
All we desired, or wished, below ; 
And every power find sweet employ, 

In that eternal world of joy. 



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The Sabbath of the Soul. 



1 O Father, though the anxious fear 

May cloud to-morrow's way ; 
Nor fear, nor doubt, shall enter here, — 
All shall be thine to-day. 

2 We will not bring divided hearts 

To worship at thy shrine ; 
But each unworthy thought departs, 
And leaves this temple thine. 

3 Then sleep to-day, tormenting cares, 

Of earth and folly born ! 
Ye shall not dim the light that streams 
From this celestial morn. 



4 To-morrow will be time enough 

To feel your harsh control ; 
Ye shall not violate this day, 
The sabbath of the soul. 

5 Sleep, sleep, for ever, guilty thoughts, 

Let fires of vengeance die ; 
Vnd purged from sin, may we behold 
A God of purity ! 

9. L. M. 

The Sacrifice of the Heart. 

1 When, as returns this solemn day, 
Man comes to meet his Maker God, 
What rights, what honours shall he pay ? 
How spread his sovereign's name abroad ? 



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2 From marble domes and gilded spires 
Shall curling clouds of incense rise ? 
And gems, and gold, and garlands deck 
The costly pomp of sacrifice ? 

3 Vain, sinful man ! creation's Lord 
Thy golden offerings well may spare ; 
But give thy heart, and thou shalt find, 
Here dwells a God who heareth prayer. 

4 O grant us in this awful hour, 

From earth and sin's allurements free, 
To feel thy love, to own thy power, 
And raise each raptured thought to thee. 

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The acceptable Offering. Micali vi. 6-8. 

1 AVherewith shall we approach thee, Lord ! 

And bow before thy throne ? 
Or how procure thy kind regard, 
And for our guilt atone ? 

2 Shall altars flame, and victims bleed, 

And spicy fumes ascend ? 
Will these our earnest wish succeed, 
And make our God our friend ? 

3 Let no such hopes our souls delude ; 

Such pompous rites are vain ; 
But God has shown us what is good, 
And how his love to gain. 

4 To men their rights we must allow, 

And proofs of kindness give ; 
To God with humble reverence bow, 
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5 Hands that are clean, and hearts sincere, 
He never will despise ; 
And cheerful duty will prefer 
To costly sacrifice. 

11. C. M. 

The accepted Worshipper. Ps. xv. 

1 Lord, who ? s the happy man that may 
To thy blest courts repair ; 
And while he bows before thy throne, 
Shall find acceptance there ? 

3 ? Tis he, whose every thought and deed 
By rules of virtue moves ; 
Whose tongue disdains to speak the word 
His honest heart disproves : 

3 Who never will a slander forge, 

His neighbour's fame to wound; 
Nor hearken to a false report, 
By malice whispered round : 

4 Who vice, tho' dressed in pomp and power, 

Can treat with just neglect ; 
And piety, though meanly clad, 
Religiously respect : 

5 Who to his plighted vows and trust 

Has ever firmly stood ; 
And though he promise to his loss, 
He makes his promise good. 

6 The man who by this steady course 

Has happiness insured, 
When earth's foundations shake, shall stand 
By providence secured. 



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Delight in Public Worship. Ps. lxxxiv. 

1 Lord of the worlds above, 
How pleasant and how fair 
The dwellings of thy love, 
Thine earthly temples are j 

To thine abode 
My heart aspires, 
With warm desires 
To see my God. 

2 O happy souls that pray 
Where God appoints to hear ! 
O happy men that pay 
Their constant service there ! 

They praise thee still ; 
And happy they 
Who love the way 
To Zion's hill. 

3 Thou art their sun and shield, 
Their glory and defence ; 

Thy hands their blessings yield, 
They flow profusely thence. 

Thou wilt bestow 

On Jacob's race, 

Peculiar grace 

And glory too. 

4 They go from strength to strength, 
Through this dark vale of tears, 
Till each arrives at length, 

Till each in heaven appears : 
O glorious seat, 
When God our King 



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Shall thither bring 
Our willing feet ! 

13. L. M. 

Delight in Public Worship. Ps. lxxxiv. 

1 What pleasure, Lord ! thy house attends, 
When the whole heart to heaven ascends 
One day thus spent with thee on earth, 
Exceeds a thousand days of mirth. 

2 While we can have the meanest place 
Within thy house, O God of grace, 
We would not absent from thee live, 
For all a tempting world can give. 

3 Blest are the spirits round thy throne, 
Who know thee, as themselves are known 
Thy brightest glories shine above, 

And all their work is praise and love. 

4 Blest are the souls that find a place 
In earthly temples of thy grace : 
Here they behold thy gentler rays, 
Inquire thy will, and learn to praise. 

O may we walk with growing strength, 
Till all shall meet in heaven at length, 
Till all before thy face appear, 

And join in nobler worship there. 

14. C. M. 

Sincere Worship alone acceptable. 

1 O thou ! whose all-discerning eye 
Explores the inmost mind ; 



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In vain to heaven we raise our cry, 
And leave our souls behind. 

2 Nothing but truth before thy throne 

With honour can appear ; 
The formal hypocrites are known 
Through the disguise they wear. 

3 Their lifted eyes salute the skies, 

Their bended knees the ground ; 
Thou wilt abhor the sacrifice, 
Where not the heart is found. 

4 O search my thoughts, and try my ways, 

And make my soul sincere ; 
Then may I stand before thy face, 
And find acceptance there. 

15. L. M. 

Divine Light and Guidance implored. 

1 O Source of uncreated light ! 

By whom the worlds were raised from night, 
Come, visit every pious mind ; 
Come, pour thy joys on human kind. 

2 Plenteous in grace, descend from high, 
Rich in thy matchless energy : 

from sin and sorrow set us free, 
And make us temples worthy thee. 

2 Cleanse and refine our earthly parts, 
Inflame and sanctify our hearts, 
Our frailties help, our vice control, 
Submit the senses to the soul. 

4 Thrice holy fount ! thrice holy fire ! 
Our hearts with heavenly love inspire ; 



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Make us eternal truths receive, 
Aid us to live as we believe. 

Chase from our path each noxious foe, 
And peace, the fruit of love bestow ; 
And lest our feet should step astray, 
Protect and guide us in our way. 

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Humble Adoration. 

1 Heavenly Father ! Sovereign Lord ! 
Be thy glorious name adored! 
Lord, thy mercies never fail ; 

Hail, celestial goodness, hail ! 

2 Though unworthy, let thine ear 
Now our humble homage hear, 
Purer praise we hope to bring, 
When around thy throne we sing. 

3 While on earth ordained to stay, 
Guide our footsteps in thy way, 
Till we come to reign with thee, 
And all thy glorious greatness see. 

4 Then with angel-harps again 
We will wake a nobler strain. 
There in joyful songs of praise, 
Our triumphant voices raise. 

5 There no tongue shall silent be, 
All shall join in harmony; 

That through heaven's all-spacious round, 
Thy praise, O God, may ever sound. 

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A Lord's day Hymn. 

1 This is the day the Lord of life 

Ascended to the skies ! 
My thoughts, pursue the lofty theme. 
And to the heavens arise. 

2 Let no vain cares divert my mind 

From this celestial road ; 
Nor all the honours of the earth 
Detain my soul from God. 

3 Think of the splendors of that place. 

The joys that are on high ; 
Nor meanly rest contented here, 
With worlds beneath the sky. 

4 Heaven is the birth-place of the saints; 

Thither at length they tend ; 
Th ? Almighty owns his favorite race. 
Their Father and their Friend. 

5 O may these tender titles prove 

My comfort and defence, 
When the sick couch shall be my lot, 
And death shall call me hence. 

18. C. M. 

Worship of the God of Holiness. Ps. v. 

1 Lord ! in the morning thou shalt hear 
My voice ascending high ; 
To thee will I direct my prayer, 
To thee lift up mine eye,. 



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2 Then to thine house will I resort; 

To taste thy mercies there ; 
I will frequent thy holy court, 
And worship in th}^ fear. 

3 O may thy spirit guide my feet 

In ways of truth and grace ! 
Make every path of duty straight 
And plain before my face. 

4 Thou art a God before whose sight, 

The wicked shall not stand ; 

Sinners shall ne'er be thy delight, 

Nor dwell at thy right hand. 

5 But they who love and fear thy name. 

Shall see their hopes fulfilled ; 
The mighty God will compass them 
With favour, as a shield. 

19. S. M. 

Hymn for the Lord's day. Ps. cxviii 

1 We hail the glorious day, 
With thankful heart and voice, 

Which chased each painful doubt away, 
And bade the church rejoice. 

2 The work, O Lord, is thine, 
And wondrous in our eyes ; 

This day proclaims it all divine — 
This day did Jesus rise. 

3 Since he hath left the grave, 
His promises are true ; 

And each exalted hope he gave, 
Confirmed ©f God we view. 



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4 O come the happy hour, 
When all the earth shall own 

Thy Son, O God ! declared with power. 
And worship at thy throne. 

5 That we possess thy word, 
Which all this grace displays, 

Accept, thou Father of our Lord, 
Our sacrifice of praise. 

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The Lord's day Morning. 

1 Again the Lord of life and light 

Awakes the kindling ray ; 
Unseals the eyelids of the morn, 
And pours increasing day. 

2 O what a night was that which wrapt 

The heathen world in gloom ! 
O what a sun, which broke this day, 
Triumphant from the tomb ! 

3 This day be grateful homage paid, 

And loud hosannas sung; 
Let gladness dwell in every heart, 
And praise on every tongue. 

4 Ten thousand differing lips shall join 

To hail this welcome morn ; 
Which scatters blessings from its wings 
To nations }^et unborn. 

5 Jesus, the friend of human kind, 

Was crucified and slain ; 
Behold, the tomb its prey restores ! 
Behold, he lives again ! 



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Engagedness in Devotion. 

1 Lord, before thy presence come, 
Bow we down with holy fear ; 
Call our erring footsteps home, 
Let us feel that thou art near. 

2 Wandering thoughts and languid powers^ 
Come not where devotion kneels ; 

Let the soul expand her stores, 
Glowing with the joy she feels. 

3 At the portals of thine house, 
We resign our earth-born cares : 
Nobler thoughts our souls engross, 
Songs of praise and fervent prayers. 

4 Hapless men, whose footsteps stray 
From the temples of the Lord ! 
Teach them wisdom's heavenly way ; 
To their feet thy light afford. 

5 Now begin the glorious song, 
Theme of wonder, love, and joy ; 
Angels ! the glad notes prolong ; 
Seraphs ! 'tis your blest employ. 

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Surrounding the Mercy-seat. 

1 Far from mortal cares retreating, 
Sordid hopes and vain desires, 
Here, our willing footsteps meeting, 
Every heart to heaven aspires. 
From the Fount of gloiy beaming, 
Light celestial cheers our eyes ; 



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Mercy from above proclaiming, 
Peace and pardon from the skies. 

2 Who may share this great salvation ? — 
Every pure and humble mind ; 
Every ldndred, tongue, and nation, 
From the dross of guilt refined : 
Blessings all around bestowing, 

God withholds his care from none ; 
Grace and mercy ever flowing 
From the fountain of his throne. 

3 Every stain of guilt confessing, 
Deed unrighteous, thought of sin, 
Seize, O seize the proffered blessing, 
Grace from God and peace within. 
Lord ! with favour still attend us, 
Bless us with thy wondrous love ; 
Thou, our sun and shield, defend us : 
All our hope is from above. 

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Invitation to the House of God. 

1 Come to the house of Prayer, 

O thou afflicted, come ; 
The God of peace shall meet thee there, 
He makes that house his home. 

2 Come to the house of Praise, 

Ye who are happy now ; 
In sweet accord your voices raise, 
In kindred homage bow. 

3 Ye aged, hither come, 

For ye have felt his love > 



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Soon shall your trembling tongues be dumb, 
Your lips forget to move. 

4 Ye young, before his throne, 

Come, bow ; your voices raise ; 

Let not your hearts his praise disown, 

Who gives the power to praise ? 

5 Thou, whose benignant eye 

In mercy looks on all ; 
Who see'st the tear of misery, 
And hear'st the mourner's call ; 

6 Up to thy dwelling-place 

Bear our frail spirits on, 
Till they outstrip time's tardy pace, 
And heaven on earth be won. 

24. L. M. 

The Presence of God in his House. 

1 Lo, God is here ! let us adore, 
And humbly bow before his face : 
Let all within us feel his power, 
Let all within us seek his grace. 

2 Lo, God is here ! him day and night 
United choirs of angels sing : 

To him, enthroned above all height. 
Heaven's host their noblest homage bring. 

3 Being of beings ! may our praise 
Thy courts with grateful fragrance fill : 
Still may we stand before thy face, 
Still hear and do thy sovereign will. 

4 Sovereign of all, below, above ! 
Man's noblest work is serving thee ; 



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Thy spirit o'er our hearts shall move, 
And tune them all to harmony. 

25. L. M. 

God exalted above all Praise. 

Eternal Power ! whose high abode 
Becomes the majesty of God ; 
Infinite lengths beyond the bounds 
AVhere stars revolve their little rounds ! 



2 Far in the depths of space, thy throne 
Burns with a lustre all its own ; 
There is thy face unveiled, and there 
The glories of the God appear. 

3 What then shall earth and frailty do ? 
Yet we would sing thy praises too ; 
From sin and dust to thee we cry, 
The Great, the Holy, and the High ! 

4 What of thyself in nature shines, 
Thy word reveals in clearer lines ; 
Yet still thy greatness leaves the mind 
With all its soaring thoughts behind. 

5 Thou art in heaven and man below ; 
What glory can our praise bestow ? 
A sacred reverence checks our songs, 
And praise sits silent on our tongues. 

26. L. M. 

There remaineth a rest to the people of God." Heb. iv. 9. 

1 Lord of the sabbath ! hear our vows, 
On this thy day, in this thy house ; 



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And own as grateful sacrifice, 

The songs which from thy churches rise. 

2 Thine earthly sabbaths, Lord ! we love ; 
But there's a nobler rest above ; 

Thy servants to that rest aspire, 
AVith ardent hope and strong desire. 

3 No more fatigue, no more distress, 

Nor sin, nor death shall reach the place ; 
No sighs shall mingle with the songs, 
That dwell upon immortal tongues. 

4 No gloomy cares shall there annoy ; 
No conscious guilt disturb our joy ; 
But every doubt and fear shall cease, 
And perfect love give perfect peace. 

5 When shall that glorious day begin, 
Beyond the reach of death or sin ? 
Whose sun shall never more decline.. 
Bat with unfading lustre shine ! 



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OF GENERAL PRAISE, THANKSGIVING, 
AND PRAYER. 



27. H. M. 

Grateful Praise. Ps. cxlviii. 

1 To your creator God, 
Your great preserver, raise, 
Ye creatures of his hand, 
Your highest notes of praise : 

Let every voice 
Proclaim his power, 
His name adore, 
And loud rejoice. 

2 Thou source of light and heat, 
Bright sovereign of the day, 
Dispensing blessings round, 
With all-diffusive ray ; 

From morn to night, 
With every beam 
Record his name, 
Who made thee bright. 

3 Fair regent of the night, 
With all thy starry train, 
W T hich rise in silent hosts, 
To gild the azure plain ; 



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With countless rays 
Declare his name, 
Prolong the theme, 
Reflect his praise. 

4 Let all the creatures join, 
To celebrate his name, 
And all their various powers 
Assist the exalted theme. 

Let nature raise 
From every tongue, 
A general song 
Of grateful praise. 

5 But oh ! from human tongues 
Should nobler praises flow ; 
And every thankful heart, 
With warm devotion glow : 

Your voices raise, 
Ye highly blest, 
Above the rest 
Declare his praise. 

28. c. m. 

The God of Nature invoked. 

1 Hail, great Creator, wise and good ! 
To thee our songs we raise : 
Nature, through all her various scenes, 
Invites us to thy praise. 

2- At morning, noon, and evening mild, 
Fresh wonders strike our view ; 
And while we gaze, our hearts exult 
With transports ever new. 



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3 Thy glory beams in every star 

Which gilds the gloom of night ; 
And decks the smiling face of morn 
With rays of cheerful light. 

4 The lofty hill, the humble vale, 

With countless beauties shine : 
The silent grave, the awful shade, 
Proclaim thy power divine. 

5 Great nature's God ! still may these scenes 

Our serious hours engage ; 
Still may our grateful hearts consult 
Thy works' instructive page ! 

f> And while, in all thy wondrous works, 
Thy varied love we see ! 
Still may the contemplation lead 
Our hearts, O God ! to thee. 

29. C. M. 

Devout Contemplation of Creation. 

1 Look round, O man ! survey this globe J 

Speak of creating power ; 
See nature gives a different robe 
To every herb and ilower. 

2 See various beings fill the air, 

And people earth and sea ; 
What grateful changes form the year ! 
How constant night and day ! 

3 Next raise thine eye ; th ? expanse above 

A power unbounded shows ; 
See round the sun the planets move, 
And various worlds compose. 



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4 Then turn into thyself, O man ! 
With wonder view thy soul ; 
Confess his power who laid each plan. 
And still directs the whole. 

4 And let obedience to his laws 
Thy gratitude proclaim, 
To him, the first Almighty cause, 
Jehovah is his name. 



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Universal Praise. 

1 Celestial worlds ! your Maker's name 
Resound through every shining coast : 
Our God a nobler praise will claim, 
Where he unfolds his glories most. 

2 Stupendous globe of naming day ! 
Praise him in thy sublime career ; 

He struck from night thy peerless ray, 
Gave thee thy path, and guides thee there. 

3 Ye starry lamps, to whom 'tis given 
Night's sable horrors to illume, 

Praise him who hung you high in heaven, 
With vivid fires to gild the gloom. 

4 Lightnings, that round th' Eternal pla} ? ! 
Thunders, that from his arm are hurled ! 
The grandeur of your God convey, 
Blazing, or bursting on the world. 

5 From clime to clime, from shore to shore, 
Be the almighty God adored: 

He made the nations by his power, 
And rules them with his sovereign word. 
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6 At once let nature's ample round 
To God the vast thanksgiving raise : 
His high perfection knows no bound, 
But fills immensity of space. 

31. C. M. 

Praise, the peculiar Duty of Man. 

1 Lord of the world's majestic frame ! 

Stupendous are thy ways ; 
Thy various works declare thy name, 
And all resound thy praise. 

2 Those mighty orbs proclaim thy power, 

Whose motions speak thy skill ; 
And on the wings of every hour, 
We read thy glory still. 

3 And while these radiant globes of light, 

That shine from pole to pole, 
In silent harmony unite 

To praise thee as they roll ; 

4 Oh ! shall not we of human race, 

The glorious concert join ? 
Shall not the children of thy grace 
Attempt the theme divine ? 

5 Not all the feeble notes of time 

Can show forth God's high praise ; 
Nor all the noblest strains sublime 
That earth or heaven can raise. 

6 Yet this shall be our best employ, 

Through life's uncertain days : 
And in the realms of boundless joy, 
Eternal be thy praise. 



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32. P. M. 

Praise from the Creation. 

1 My soul, praise the Lord, 

Speak good of his name ! 
His mercies record, 

His bounties proclaim : 
To God, their creator, 

Let all creatures raise 
The song of thanksgiving, 

The chorus of praise ! 

2 Though, hid from man's sight, 

God sits on his throne, 
Yet here by his works 

Their author is known : 
The world shines a mirror 

Its maker to show, 
And heaven views its image 

Reflected below. 

3 Those agents of power, 

Fire, water, earth, sky, 
Attest the dread might 

Of God the most high : 
Who rides on the whirlwind, 

While clouds veil his form; 
Who smiles in the sunbeam, 

Or frowns in the storm. 

4 By knowledge supreme, 

By wisdom divine, 
God governs this earth 

With gracious design ; 
O'er beast, bird, and insect, 

His providence reigns, 



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Whose will first created, 
Whose love still sustains. 

5 And man, his last work, 

With reason endued, 
Who, falling through sin, 

By grace is renewed ; 
To God, his creator, 

Let man ever raise 
The song of thanksgiving, 

The chorus of praise ! 

33. L. M. 

Praise from the Works of God. 

1 GREATESt of beings ! source of life, 
Sovereign of air, and earth, and sea ! 
All nature feels thy power, and all 
A silent homage pay to thee. 

2 Waked by thy hands, the morning sun 
Pours forth to thee its earlier rays, 
And spreads thy glories as it climbs ; 
While raptured worlds look up and praise* 

3 The moon to the deep shades of night 
Speaks the mild lustre of thy name ; 
While all the stars that cheer the scene 
Thee, the great Lord of light proclaim. 

4 And groves, and vales, and rocks and hills, 
And every flower, and every tree, 

Ten thousand creatures warm with life, 
Have each a grateful song for thee. 

5 But man was formed to rise to heaven : 
And blest with reason's clearer light, 



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He views his Maker through his works, 
And glows with rapture at the sight. 

6 Nor can the thousand songs that rise. 
Whether from air, or earth, or sea, 
So well repeat Jehovah's praise, 
Or raise such sacred harmony. 

34. L. M. 

God adored for his Goodness. Ps. cvii. 31. 

1 With grateful joy, O man ! record 
The various wonders of the Lord ; 
And let his pow'r and goodness sound, 
Thro' all your tribes, the earth around. 

'2 Let the high heavens your songs invite, 
Those spacious fields of brilliant light : 
Where sun, and moon, and planets roll, 
And stars, that glow from pole to pole. 

3 Sing earth, in verdant robes arrayed, 

Its herbs and flowers, its fruits and shade, 
Peopled with life its regions wide, 
Life, from its plenteous stores supplied. 

4 View the broad sea's majestic plain, 
And sing its Maker's boundless reign : 
That band remotest nations joins, 
And on each wave his goodness shines. 

5 But O ! that brighter world above, 
Where lives and reigns eternal love ! 
Thither, my soul ! with rapture soar, 
There, in the land of praise adore. 

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35. 6 /. C. M. 

Hymn of universal Praise. Ps. cxlviii. 

1 With grateful heart and cheerful tongue 
To God we raise the sacred song, 

And praise the almighty name ! 
Lo ! heaven, and earth, and seas, and skies 
In one harmonious concert rise, 

To swell the inspiring theme ! 

2 Ye angels, catch the joyful sound, 
And as ye wait his throne around, 

His wondrous goodness sing ! 
Let the full choir of saints above 
Join the glad strain of grateful love, 

And strike th ? according string ! 

3 Thou heaven of heavens, his vast abode, 
Ye clouds proclaim your maker, God ! 

Ye thunders, speak his power ! 
Lo ! on the lightning's gleamy wing 
In triumph rides the eternal King ; 

The astonished worlds adore. 

4 Ye deeps, whose roaring billows rise 
To join the thunders of the skies, 

Praise him who bids you roll ; 
His praise in softer notes declare, 
Each whispering breeze of yielding air, 

And breathe it to the soul. 

5 Wake, all ye soaring throng and sing ! 
Ye cheerful warblers of the spring, 

Melodious anthems raise ! 



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To him who shaped your finer mould, 
Who tipped your glittering wings with gold. 
And tuned your voice to praise. 

6 Let man, with nobler reason fraught, 
The feeling heart, the glowing thought, 

In God's high praise employ ! 
Spread the creator's name around, 
Till heaven's wide arch repeat the sound, 

The general burst of joy ! 

36. L. M. 

Praise to the Lord of Nature. 

X O thou, through all thy works adored 
Great power supreme, almighty Lord ' 
Author of life, whose sovereign sway 
Creatures of every tribe obey ! 

^ To thee, most high ,to thee belong 
The suppliant prayer, the joyful song; 
To thee we will attune our voice, 
And in thy wondrous works rejoice. 

3 Planets, those wandering worlds above, 
Guided by thee, incessant move ; 
Suns, kindled by a ray divine, 

In honour of their maker shine. 

4 From thee proceed heaven's varied store, 
The changing wind, the fruitful shower, 
The flying cloud, the coloured bow, 

The moulded hail, the feathered snow : 

5 Tempests obey thy mighty will ; 
Thine awful mandate to fulfil, 



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The forked lightnings dart around, 
And rive the oak, and blast the ground* 

6 Yet pleased to bless, kind to supply, 
Thy hand supports thy family, 
And fosters, with a parent's care, 
The tribes of earth, and sea, and air. 

37. c. m. 

God's Power seen in the Elements. 

1 Thou unseen power arrayed in might,, 

The winds obey thy will ; 
God speaks, and in the heavenly height 
The rolling sun stands still. 

2 Rebel, ye waves ! and o'er the land 

With threatening aspect roar ; 
The Lord uplifts his awful hand 
And chains you to the shore. 

3 Howl, winds of might ! your force combine 

Without his high behest, 
Ye shall not in the mountain pine 
Disturb the sparrow's nest. 

4 His voice sublime is heard afar, 

In distant peals it dies ; 
He yokes the whirlwind to his car, 
And sweeps the howling skies. 

5 Ye nations ! bend, in reverence bend : 

Ye monarchs ! wait his nod, 
And bid the choral song ascend 
To celebratp the God! 



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38. L. M. 

Divine Majesty and Goodness in the Elements. Ps. civ. 

1 Awake, my soul, to hymns of praise, 
To God the song of triumph raise ; 
Adorned with majesty divine, 

What pomp, what glory, Lord, are thine ! 

2 Light forms his robe, and round his head 
The heavens their ample curtain spread; 
See on the wind's expanded wings 

The chariot of the King of kings ! 

3 Around him ranged in awful state, 
Dark silent storms attentive wait ; 
And thunders, ready to fulfil 

The mandates of his sovereign will. 

4 From earth's low margin to the skies 
He bids the dusky vapours rise ! 
Then from his magazines on high, 
Commands th' imprisoned winds to fly. 

5 The lightning's pallid sheet expands, 
And showers descend on furrowed lands ; 
While down the mountain's channelled side 
The torrent rolls in swelling pride ; 

6 Till spent its wild, impetuous force, 
And settled in its destined course, 
It waters all the fruitful plains, 
And life in various forms sustains. 

7 Thus clouds, and storms, and fires obey 
Thy wise and all-controlling sway ; 
And while thy terrors round us stand, 
We see a Father's bounteous hand. 



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39. C. M. 

Providence kind and bountiful. Ps. cxlv. 

1 O God ! while nature speaks thy praise 

With all her numerous tongues ; 
Thy saints shall tune diviner lays, 
And love inspire their songs. 

2 Thy vast dominion ever stands, 

While earthly thrones decay ; 
And time submits to thy commands, 
While ages roll away. 

3 Thy sovereign bounty freely gives-. 

Its unexhausted store, 
And universal nature lives 
On thy sustaining power. 

4 Wisdom, and might, and goodness, Lord f 

Which through thy works appear, 
Should chiefly, grateful man, record, 
Man, thy distinguished care. 

5 From thee the breath of life he drew, 

That breath thy power maintains ; 
Thy tender mercy, ever new, 
His brittle frame sustains. 

6 Yet nobler favours claim his praise, 

Of reason's light possest; 

By revelation's brighter rays 

Still more divinely blest. 

7 Thy praises then, delightful theme ! 

Shall fill my heart and tongue ; 
Let all creation bless thy name, 

In one eternal song. I 



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40. L. M. 

Man's Dependance upon God. 

1 Great cause of all things ! source of life, 
Sovereign of air, of earth, and sea ! 

All nature owns thy power ; but man 
A grateful tribute pays to thee. 

2 Subject to wants, to thee he looks, 
And from thy goodness seeks supplies ; 
And when opprest with guilt he mourns, 
Thy mercy lifts him to the skies. 

3 Children, whose little minds, unformed, 
Ne'er raised a tender thought to heaven ; 
And men, whom reason lifts to God, 
Though oft by passion downward driven ; 

3 Those too who bend with age and care, 
And faint and tremble near the tomb ; 
Who, sickening at the present scenes, 
Sigh for that better state to come : — 

5 All, great Creator ! all are thine ; 
AH feel thy providential care ; 

And through each varying scene of life 
Alike thy constant pity share. 

6 And whether grief oppress the heart, 
Or whether joy elate the breast ; 

Or life still keep its varying course, 
Or death invite the heart to rest : 

7 All are thy messengers, and all 
Thy sacred pleasure, Lord, obey : 
And all are training man to dwell 
Nearer to bliss, and nearer thee. 



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41. C. M. 

Universal acknowledgment of the Divine Providence. Ps, xxii. 

1 May all the various tribes of men 

To God their homage pay ; 
And scattered nations of the earth 
One sovereign Lord obey. 

2 'Tis his prerogative supreme 

O'er subject kings to reign, 
? Tis just that he should rule the world ? 
Who does the world sustain. 

3 The rich, who are with plenty fed, 

His goodness shall confess ; 
The sons of want whom he relieves, 
Their bounteous patron bless. 

4 With humble confidence, to God 

Let all for aid repair ; 
For he who first their being gave, 
Will make them still his care. 

5 Blest time ! when all of human birth 

Shall own their sovereign's name ; 
And to each coming age, with joy 
His truth and grace proclaim. 

42. L. M. 

Praise to the Divine Beneficence. 

1 God of the universe, whose hand 

Hath filled with suns the fields of space, 
Round which, obeying thy command, 
The peopled worlds fulfil their race ; 



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2 How vast the region where thy hand 
Existence, form, and order gives ; 
Pleased the wide cup with joy to fill 
For all that grows, and feels, and lives. 

3 Lord, while we thank thee, let us learn 
Beneficence to all below ; 

Those praise thee best, whose bosoms burn 
To spread the gifts from thee that flow. 

4 So at the awful hour of change, 

Our frames the bonds of death shall tear, 
Through the whole starry vast to range, 
Thy bounty to admire and share. 

43. L. M. 

The Divine Perfections and Providence. Ps. xxxvi. S-9. 

1 High in the heavens, eternal God, 
Thy goodness in full glory shines ; 

Thy truth shall break through every cloud 
Which veils and darkens thy designs. 

2 Thy justice like the hills remains, 
Unfathomed depths thy mercies are ; 
Thy providence the world sustains ; 
The whole creation is thy care. 

3 Since of thy goodness all partake, 
With what assurance may the just 
Thy sheltering wings their refuge make, 
And saints to thy protection trust. 

4 Such guests shall to thy courts be led, 
To banquet on thy love's repast, 
\nd drink, as from the fountain-head. 
Of joys which shall for ever last. 

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y O let thy saints thy favour gain, 
To upright hearts thy truth display, 
With thee the springs of life remain, 
Thy presence is eternal day. 

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The Perfections and Providence of God. Ps. cxxxvi. 

1 Let us with a joyful mind 
Praise the Lord, for he is kind, 
For his mercies shall endure 
Ever faithful, ever sure. 

2 Let us sound his name abroad, 
For of gods he is the God, 
Who by wisdom did create 
Heaven's expanse and all its state. 

3 Did the solid earth ordain 
How to rise above the main : 
Who by his commanding might, 
Filled the new-made world with light, 

4 Caused the golden-tressed sun, 
All the day his course to run ; 
Ajid the moon to shine by night, 
'Mid her spangled sisters bright. 

5 All his creatures God does feed, 
His full hand supplies their need ; 
Let us therefore warble forth 
His high majesty and worth. 

(5 He his mansion hath on high, 
? Bove the reach of mortal eye ; 
And his mercies shall endure, 
Ever faithful, ever sure. 



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The Harmony of Praise. 

1 Thou who dwelFst enthroned above ! 
Thou, in whom we live and move ! 
Thou who art most great, most high ! 
God from all eternity ! 

2 O how sweet, how excellent, 

7 Tis when tongue and heart consent, 
Grateful hearts, and joyful tongues, 
Hymning thee in tuneful songs ! 

3 When the morning paints the skies, 
When the stars of evening rise, 
We thy praises will record, 
Sovereign Ruler, mighty Lord ! 

4 Decks the spring with flowers the field ? 
Harvest rich doth autumn yield ? 
Giver of all good below ! 

Lord, from thee these blessings flow. 

5 Sovereign Ruler ! mighty Lord ! 
We thy praises will record : 
Giver of these blessings ! we 
Pour the grateful song to thee. 

46. 6 I. C. M. 

Invocation of all Creatures to praise God. 

1 Creation's God ! on thee alone, 

From earth thy footstool, heaven thy throne, 

Be all their praise bestowed ; 
Whose hand, the beauteous fabric made, 
Whose eye, the finished work surveyed, 

And saw that all was good. 



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2 Ye angels, who with loud acclaim, 
Admiring viewed the new-born frame, 

And hailed the eternal King ; 
Again proclaim your Maker's praise, 
Again, your thankful voices raise, 

And sacred anthems sing. 

3 Ye sons of men, his praise display, 
Who stamped his image on your clay, 

And gave it power to move ; 
Where'er ye go, where'er ye dwell, 
From age to age successive tell. 

The wonders of his love. 

4 Ye spirits of the just and good, 
Who eager for the blest abode, 

To heavenly mansions soar : 
O let your songs his praise display, 
Till heaven itself shall melt away, 

And time shall be no more. 

5 Praise him, ye meek and humble train, 
Who shall those heavenly joys obtain, 

Prepared for souls sincere ; 
O praise him, till ye take your way 
To regions of eternal day, 

To reign forever there. 

47. L. M. 

God entitled to perpetual Praise. Ps. cxlv. 

1 My God ! my King ! thy various praise 
Shall fill the remnant of my days ; 
Thy grace employ my humble tongue 
Till death and glory raise the song. 



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2 The wings of every hour shall bear 
Some thankful tribute to thine ear ; 
And every setting sun shall see 
lSew works of duty done for thee. 

3 Thy works with boundless glory shine, 
And speak thy majesty divine, 

Let land to land aloud proclaim 
The matchless honours of thy name. 

4 Let distant times and nations raise 
The long succession of thy praise ; 
And unborn ages make my song 
The joy and labour of their tongue. 

48. L. M. 

Desiring to praise God. Ps. lvii. 

1 Be thou exalted, O my God ! 

Above the heavens where angels dwell 
Thy power on earth be known abroad, 
And land to land thy wonders tell. 

2 My heart is fixed ; my song shall raise 
Immortal honours to thy name : 
Awake, my tongue, to sound his praise. 
My tongue, the glory of my frame ! 

3 In thee, my God ! are all the springs 
Of boundless love, and grace unknown 
All the rich blessings nature brings, 
Are gifts descending from thy throne. 

4 High o'er the earth thy mercy reigns. 
And reaches to the utmost sky : 
Thy truth to endless years remains, 
When lower worlds dissolve and die. 

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Be thou exalted, O my God ! 
Above the heavens where angels dwell : 
Thy power on earth be known abroad, 
And land to land thy wonders tell. 

49. P. M. 

Hymn of praise. Ps. cxlix. 

O traise ye the Lord ! 
Prepare your glad voice, 
His praise in the great 
Assembly to sing. 
In their great Creator 
Let all men rejoice, 
And heirs of salvation 
Be glad in their King. 

Let them his great name 
Devoutly adore ; 
In loud swelling strains 
His praises express, 
Who graciously opens 
His bountiful store, 
Their wants to relieve, and 
His children to bless. 

With glory adorned, 
His people shall sing 
To God, who defence 
And plenty supplies ; 
Their loud acclamations 
To him their great King, 
Through earth shall be sounded. 
And reach to the skies. 



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4 Ye angels above, 

His glories who've sung, 
In loftiest notes, 
Now publish his praise : 
We, mortals, delighted, 
Would borrow your tongue ; 
Would join in your numbers, 
And chant to your lays. 

50. L. M. 

Hymn to the Deity. 

1 Let one loud song of praise arise 

To God, whose goodness ceaseless flows ; 
Who dwells enthroned above the skies, 
And life and breath on all bestows. 

2 Let all of good this bosom fires, 

To him, sole good, give praises due ; 
Let all the truth himself inspires, 
Unite to sing him only true. 

3 In ardent adoration joined, 
Obedient to thy holy will, 
Let all our faculties combined, 
Thy just commands, O God ! fulfil. 

4 O ! may the solemn-breathing sound 
Like incense rise before thy throne, 
Where thou, whose glory knows no bound. 
Great Cause of all things, dwellest alone. 



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51. L. M. 

The Acts of God celebrated by all the intelligent Creation. 

1 Author of being ! when thy word 
Began creation's grand employ, 
Around seraphic harps were heard, 
And morning heralds sang for joy. 

2 And when, — to swell thy mercies more, 
Jesus, to bless our race was born, 
Archangel voices went before, 

And harbingered salvation's dawn. 

2 There too where saints perfected dwell, 
From sin and care and sorrow free, 
In nearer presence blest, they swell 
An endless paean, Lord ! to thee. 

4 Then let thy feeble children here, 
Join with the countless choirs above, 
Who round thy throne of light appear, 
To hymn thy praise and sing thy love. 



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Praise to God in Prosperity and Adversity. Hab. iii. 
17. 18. 

1 Praise to God, immortal praise, 
For the love that crowns our days : 
Bounteous source of every joy, 
Let thy praise our tongues employ : 

2 For the blessings of the field, 
For the stores the gardens yield ; 



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For the vine's exalted juice, 
For the generous olive's use : 

3 Flocks that whiten all the plain, 
Yellow sheaves of ripened grain, 
Clouds that drop their fattening dews, 
Suns that temperate warmth diffuse ; 

4 All that spring with bounteous hand 
Scatters o'er the smiling land ; 

All that liberal autumn pours 
From her rich o'erflowing stores ; 

5 These to thee, our God ! we owe, 
Source whence all our blessings flow ! 
And for these our souls shall raise 
Grateful vows and solemn praise. 

6 Yet should rising whirlwinds tear 
From its stem the ripening ear ; 
Should the fig-tree's blasted shoot 
Drop her green untimely fruit : 

7 Should thine altered hand restrain 
The early and the latter rain ; 
Blast each opening bud of joy, 
And the rising year destroy : 

8 Still to thee our souls shall raise 
Grateful vows and solemn praise ; 
And, when every blessing 's flown, 
Love thee — for thyself alone. 

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Obligation to Gratitude and Praise* 

1 My Father and my King ! 
To thee my all I owe ; 



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Thy sovereign bounty is the spring, 
From whence my blessings flow. 

Thou ever good and kind ! 
A thousand reasons move, 
A thousand obligations bind 
My heart to grateful love. 

The creature of thy hand, 
On thee alone I live : 
My God ! thy benefits demand 
More praise than life can give. 

O what can I impart, 
When all was thine before ? 
Thy love demands a thankful heart ; 
The gift, alas ! how poor ! 

Shall I withhold thy due ? 
And shall my passions rove ? 
Lord ! make me to thy service true, 
And fill me with thy love. 

O let thy grace inspire 
My soul with strength divine ; 
Let all my powers to thee aspire, 
And all my days be thine. 

54. L. M. 

Thanks to God for Creation. 

Thou power, by whose command I live ! 
The tribute of my praise receive : 
My being to thy love I owe, 
And all the joys that from it flow. 

Not many suns have formed the year, 
And rolled their courses round this sphere, 



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Since thy kind eye my form surveyed. 
Midst shapeless heaps of matter laid. 

3 Thy skill my native clay refined, 
Its particles in order joined ; 

With symmetry composed the whole, 
And stamped thine image on the soul ; 

4 A frame susceptible of joy, 

Nor force nor time shall e'er destroy ; 
And which, though nature claim my breath, 
Shall triumph o'er the sleep of death. 

5 To realms of bliss that frame will soar, 
When earth and skies shall be no more : 
O God ! in vain our voice essays 

For this best gift to speak thy praise. 

6 How shall my heart its sense reveal. 
Where all the power of words must fail ? 
O may it in my life appear, 

And each act speak my thanks sincere ! 

55. L. M. 

Giving Thanks to God in all things. 

1 God of my life ! my thanks to thee, 
Shall like thy gifts continual be : 

In constant streams thy bounty flows, 
Nor end nor interruption knows. 

2 From thee my comforts all arise, 

My numerous wants thy hand supplies, 
Nor can I, Lord, be ever poor, 
Who live on thine exhaustless store. 

3 If what I ask, thy love denies, 

It is because thou 7 rt good and wise ; 



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And ills, which cause my heart to mourn, 
Thou canst to real blessings turn. 

4 O deep upon my thankful breast 
Let all thy favours be imprest ; 
That I may never more forget 
The whole, or any single debt. 

5 Dispose me each revolving day 
For all thy gifts my praise to pay ; 
And let my life devoted be, 

My richest offering, Lord, to thee ! 

56. c. m. 

Gratitude to God. 

1 When all thy mercies, O my God ! 

My rising soul surveys, 
Transported with the view, I'm lost 
In wonder, love, and praise. 

2 Thy providence my life sustained, 

And all my wants redressed, 
When in the silent womb I lay, 
Or hung upon the breast. 

3 To all my weak complaints and cries 

Thy mercy lent an ear, 
Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learnt 
To form themselves in prayer. 

4 Unnumbered comforts on my soul 

Thy tender care bestowed, 
Before ray infant heart conceived 
From whom those comforts flowed. 

5 When in the slippery paths of youth 

With heedless steps I ran, 



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Thine arm, unseen, conveyed me safe, 
And led me up to man. 

6 Through hidden dangers, toils, and death, 

It gently cleared my way ; 
And through the pleasing snares of vice, 
More to be feared than they. 

7 When nature fails, and day and night 

Divide thy works no more ; 
My ever grateful heart, O Lord ! 
Thy mercy shall adore. 

57. c. m. 

Gratitude to God. 

1 O How shall words, with equal warmth, 

The gratitude declare, 
That glows in my enraptured heart ! — 
But thou canst read it there. 

2 Thy bounteous hand with worldly bliss 

Hath made my cup run o'er ; 
And, in a kind and faithful friend, 
Hath doubled all my store. 

3 Ten thousand thousand precious gifts 

My daily thanks employ ; 
Nor is the least a cheerful heart, 
Which tastes those gifts with joy. 

4 When worn by sickness, oft hast thou 

With health renewed my face ; 
And, when in sin and sorrows sunk, 
Revived my soul with grace. 

5 Through every period of my life 

Thv goodness I'll pursue ; 

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And after death in unknown worlds, 
The glorious theme renew. 

6 Through all eternity to thee 
A joyful song I'll raise — 
For oh ! eternity alone 
Can utter all thy praise. 

58. p. m. 

Gratitude for Consolation and Health. 

How vast is the tribute I owe 

Of gratitude, homage, and praise, 

To the giver of all I possess, 

The life and the length of my days ! 

When the sorrows I boded were come, 
I poured out my sighs and my tears ; 

And to him who alone can relieve, 

My soul breathed her vows and her prayers. 

When my heart throbbed with pain and alarm, 
When paleness my cheek overspread, 

When sickness pervaded my frame ; 
Then my soul on my Maker was staid. 

When death's awful image was nigh, 
And no mortal was able to save ; 

Thou didst brighten the valley of death, 
And ilLunine the gloom of the grave. 

In mercy thy presence dispels 

The shades of calamity's night, 
And turns the sad scene of despair, 

To a morning of joy and delight. 

Great source of my comforts restored ! 
Thou healer and balm of my woes, 






Part II.] THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER. 

Thou hope and desire of my soul ! 
On thy mercy I'll ever repose. 

7 How boundless the gratitude due 

To thee, O thou God of my praise ! 
The fountain of all I possess, 

The life and the light of my days ! 

59. L. M. 

The Bounties of Providence acknowledged. Mat. v, 45, 

1 Father of lights ! we sing thy name, 
Who kindlest up the lamp of day ; 
Wide as he spreads his golden flame, 
His beams thy power and love display. 

2 Fountain of good ! from thee proceeds, 
In copious drops, the genial rain, 

Which o'er the hills and through the meads, 
Revive the grass, and swell the grain. 

3 Through the wide world thy bounties spread j 
Yet millions of our guilty race, 

Though by thy daily bounty fed, 
Affront thy law, and spurn thy grace. 

4 Not so may our forgetful hearts 
O'orlook the tokens of thy care ; 
But what thy liberal hand imparts, 
Still own in praise, still ask in prayer. 

5 So shall our suns more grateful shine, 
And showers in sweeter drops shall fall, 
When all our hearts and lives are thine, 
And thou, O God ! enjoyed in all. 



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60. c. m. 

Gratitude to the unceasing Goodness of God. 

1 Father divine ! thy gracious power 

On every hand we see ; 
O may the blessings of each hour 
Lead all our thoughts to thee. 

2 If on the wings of morn we speed 

To earth's remotest bound, 
Thy hand will there our footsteps lead, 
Thine arm our path surround. 

S Thy power is in the ocean deeps, 
And reaches to the skies ; 
Thine eye of mercy never sleeps, 
Thy goodness never dies. 

4 From morn till noon, till latest eve, 

The hand of God we see ; 
And all the blessings we receive, 
Ceaseless proceed from thee. 

5 In all the various scenes of time, 

On thee our hopes depend ; 
In every age, in every clime, 
Our Father and our Friend. 

61. L. M. 

Praise for temporal and spiritual Blessings. Ps. ciii. 

1 Bless, O my soul ! the living God 

Call home my thoughts that rove abroad ; 
Let all the powers within me join 
In work and worship so divine. 

2 Bless, O my soul ! the God of grace ; 
His favours claim thy highest praise : 



Part II.] THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER. 

Let not the wonders he hath wrought. 
Be lost in silence and forgot. 

3 The vices of the mind he heals, 

And sooths the pains which nature feels : 

Relieves our sicknessess and saves 

Our wasting lives from threatening graves. 

4 Our youth decayed his power renews, 
Each year new acts of mercy views ; 
And while he present good supplies, 
Bids perfect bliss in prospect rise. 

5 The weak by lawless power opprest, 
May on his arm securely rest, 
Who will his justice wide display 

In the last great rewarding day. 

6 His power he showed by Moses' hands. 
And gave to Israel his commands ; 
But made his truth and mercy known 
To all the nations by his Son. 

7 Let the whole earth his power confess : 
Let the whole earth adore his grace ; 
The Gentile with the Jew shall join 

In work and worship so divine. 

62. L. M. 

Praise to the Divine Compassion. Ps. ciii. 

1 My soul, inspired with sacred love, 
God's holy name forever bless ; 
Of all his favours mindful prove, 
And still thy grateful thanks express. 

2 'Tis he that all thy sins forgives, 
And after sickness makes thee sound ; 

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From danger he thy life retrieves, 
To be with grace and mercy crowned. 

The Lord abounds with tender love, 
And unexampled acts of grace ; 
His wakened wrath doth slowly move, 
His willing mercy flies apace. 

God will not always harshly chide, 
But with his anger quickly part ; 
And chastisement will ever guide 
More by his love than our desert. 

Far as the east is from the west, 
So far hath he our sins removed ; 
Who, with a father's tender breast, 
Has such as fear him, always loved. 

Let every creature jointly bless 
The mighty Lord : and thou my heart, 
With grateful joy thy thanks express, 
And in this concert bear thy part. 

63. c. m. 

Praise to God in Life and Death. 

1 My soul shall praise thee, O my God ! 

Through all my mortal days ; 
And to eternity prolong 

Thy vast, thy boundless praise. 

2 In each bright hour of peace and hope. 

Be this my sweet employ : 
Devotion heightens all my bliss, 
And sanctifies my joy. 

3 In all thy mercies may my soul 

A father's bounty see ; 



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Nor let the gifts thy grace bestows, 
Estrange my heart from thee. 

4 When gloomy care, or keen distress, 

Invades my throbbing breast, 
My tongue shall learn to speak thy praise^ 
And soothe my pains to rest. 

5 Nor shall my tongue alone proclaim 

The honours of my God ; 
My life, with all my active powers, 
Shall spread thy praise abroad. 

6 Thro' every changing stage of life, 

Each bright, each clouded scene ; 
Give me a meek and humble mind, 
Still equal and serene. 

7 And tho' these lips shall cease to move, 

Though death shall close these eyes, 
Yet shall my soul to nobler heights 
Of joy and transport rise. 

8 Then shall my powers in endless strains 

Their grateful tribute pay : 
The theme demands an angel's tongue, 
And an eternal day. 

64. L. M. 

God the Author of our Comforts and Hopes. Ps. cxvi. 8-9. 

1 Great Source of life ! our souls confess 
The various riches of thy grace ; 
Crowned with thy mercy, we rejoice, 
And in thy praise exalt our voice. 

2 By thee, the vault of heaven was spread : 
By thee, the earth's foundations laid ; 



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And all the scenes of man's abode 
Proclaim a wise and gracious God. 

3 Thy quickening hand restores our breath, 
When trembling on the verge of death ; 
Gently it wipes away our tears, 

And lengthens life to future years. 

4 Our lives are sacred to the Lord ; 
Kindled by him, by him restored : 
And, while our hours renew their race, 
May sin no more these hours disgrace ! 

5 So when, at length, by thee we 7 re led 
Through unknown regions of the dead, 
With hope triumphant may we move 
To scenes of nobler life above ! 

65. c. m. 

The peculiar Goodness of God to his People. Ps. xxxi, 19 

1 With pleasing wonder, Lord ! we view 

The bounties of thy grace ; 
How much bestowed, how much reserved 
For those that seek thy face. 

2 Thy liberal hand with worldly bliss 

Oft makes their cup run o'er; 
And in the covenant of thy love 
They find diviner store. 

3 Here mercy hides their numerous sins, 

Here grace their souls renews ; 
Here hope, and love, and joy, and peace 
Their heavenly beams diffuse. 

4 But O ! what treasures yet unknown 

Are stored in worlds to come ! 



Part 11.] THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER. 

If these th' enjoyments of the way, 
How happy is their home ! 

5 God to eternal glory calls, 

And leads the wondrous way 
To his own palace where he reigns 
In uncreated day. 

6 Thus love through all our heing flows. 

An unexhausted stream : 
And shall upon thy sacred mount 
Still be my ceaseless theme. 

66. 6 1 c. m. 

The Love of God. 

1 My God ! thy boundless love I praise ; 
How bright on high its glories blaze ! 

How sweetly bloom below ! 
It streams from thine eternal throne ; 
Through heaven its joys forever run, 

And o'er the earth they flow. 

2 'Tis love that paints the purple morn, 
And bids the clouds, in air upborne, 

Their genial drops distil ; 
In every vernal beam it glows, 
And breathes in every gale that blows, 

And glides in every rill. 

3 It robes in cheerful green the ground, 
And pours its flowery beauties round, 

Whose sweets perfume the gale ; 
Its bounties richly spread the plain, 
The blushing fruit, the golden grain, 

And smile on every vale. 



OP GENERAL PRAISE, [Part II. 

4 But in thy word I see it shine 
With grace and glories more divine, 

Proclaiming sins forgiven ; 
There, faith, bright cherub, points the way 
To realms of everlasting day, 

And opens all her heaven. 

5 Then let the love that makes me blest, 
With cheerful praise inspire my breast, 

And ardent gratitude : 
And all my thoughts and passions tend. 
To thee, my Father, and my Friend, 

My soul's eternal good. 

67. L. M. 

Praise to God through the whole of Existence. 
Ps. cxlvi 2. 

1 God of my life ! through all its days 

My grateful powers shall sound thy praise ; 
The song shall wake with opening light, 
And warble to the silent night. 

2 When anxious cares would break my rest, 
And griefs would tear my throbbing breast, 
Thy tuneful praises, raised on high, 

Shall check the murmur and the sigh. 

3 When death o'er nature shall prevail, 
And all the powers of language fail, 

Joy through my swimming eyes shall break, 
And mean the thanks I cannot speak. 

4 But O ! when that blest morn is come, 
Which breaks the slumbers of the tomb, 
With what glad accents shall I rise 

To join the music of she skies ! 



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5 Soon shall I learn th' exalted strains 
Which echo o'er the heavenly plains ; 
And emulate with joy unknown,, 

The glowing seraphs round thy throne. 

6 ' Praise shall employ my nobler powers, 
' While immortality endures :' 

A work so sweet, a theme so high. 
Demands, and crowns eternity. 



68. C. M. 

Adoration and Prayer to the Supreme. 

1 While raptured saints adoring stand, 

And burning seraphs sing, 
Trembling, I wait thy just command, 
My father, God, and king ! 

2 Thou source of everlasting good, 

Whose bounty flows to all ! 
Whose power restrains the swelling flood ; — 
O hear ! to thee I call. 

3 Thy presence fills unbounded space, 

Directs the reasoning mind : 
Through nature's various parts we trace 
Her God : her God we find. 

4 Thy wisdom paints each springing flower, 

And shades the blushing green ; 
Thy goodness falls in every shower, 
In every shower is seen. 

5 When'er thy wisdom thinks it fit 

To shake this clay-built frame, 
Teach me with patience to submit, 
In faith, to bless thy name. 



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6 Let not the stream of partial ill 
My better thoughts betray, 
But truth and reason guide me still 
Along the heavenly way. 

69. c. m. 

Prayer for real Blessings and christian Graces. 

1 To thee, O God ! my prayer ascends, 

But not for golden stores ; 
Nor covet I the brightest gems 
That clothe the eastern shores : 

2 Nor that deluding empty joy 

Men call a mighty name ; 
Nor greatness, with its pride and state. 
My restless thoughts inflame : 

3 Nor pleasure's fascinating charms, 

My fond desires allure ; 
But nobler things than these, from thee, 
My wishes would secure. 

4 The faith and hope of things unseen 

My best affections move ; 
Thy light, thy favour, and thy smiles, 
Thine everlasting love : 

5 These are the blessings I desire ; 

Lord, be these blessings mine — 
And all the glories of the world 
I cheerfully resign. 



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70. 61 C. M. 

Heavenly Wisdom implored. 

1 To thee, supreme, eternal mind, 
All-wise, all-perfect, ever-kind, 

My thoughts direct their flight ; 
Wisdom's thy gift, and all her force 
From thee derived, unchanging source 

Of intellectual light. 

2 To me her better gifts impart, 
Each moral beauty of the heart 

By studious thought refined ; 
For wealth, the smiles of glad content. 
For power, its amplest, best extent, 

An empire o'er the mind. 

3 O send her sure, her steady ray 
To regulate my doubtful way 

Through life's perplexing road ; 
The mists of error to control, 
And through its gloom, direct my soul 

To happiness and good. 

4 Beneath her clear discerning eye, 
The visionary shadows fly 

Of folly's painted show ; 
She sees, through every fair disguise, 
That all but virtue's solid joys 

Is vanity and woe. 
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71. C. M. 

Aspiration after the Christian Temper. 

1 Thou great and sacred Lord of all ! 

Of life the only spring ! 
Creator of unnumbered worlds ! 
Supreme, eternal king. 

2 Drive from the confines of my heart 

Impenitence and pride ; 
Nor let me in forbidden paths 
With thoughtless sinners glide. 

3 Whatever thine all-discerning eye 

Sees for thy creatures fit, 
I'll bless the good, and to the ill 
Contentedly submit. 

4 With generous pleasure let me view 

The prosperous and the great ; 
Malignant hatred let me fly, 
And odious self-conceit. 

5 Let not despair, nor fell revenge, 

Be to my bosom known : 
Oh ! give me tears for others' woes, 
And patience for mine own. 

6 Feed me with necessary food ; 

I ask not wealth nor fame : 
Give me an eye to see thy works, 
A heart to bless thy name. 

7 Still let my days serenely pass 

Without remorse or care ; 
And growing holiness my soul 
For life's last hour prepare. 



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72. L. M. 

Devout Aspirations. 

1 Supreme and universal light ! 
Fountain of reason ! judge of right ! 
Parent of good ! whose blessings flow 
On all above, and all below : 

2 Without whose kind, directing ray, 
In everlasting night we stray, 
From passion still to passion tost, 
And in a maze of error lost. 

3 Assist us, Lord ! to act, to be, 
What nature and thy laws decree ; 
Worthy that intellectual flame, 
Which from thy breathing spirit came. 

4 Our moral freedom to maintain, 
Bid passion serve, and reason reign, 
Self-poised and independent still 
On this world's varying good or ill. 

5 No slave to profit, shame, or fear, 
O may our steadfast bosoms bear 
The stamp of heaven, an honest heart, 
Above the mean disguise of art ! 

6 May our expanded souls disclaim 
The narrow view, the selfish aim ; 
But with a christian zeal embrace 
Whatever is friendly to our race. 

7 O Father ! grace and virtue grant ; 
No more we wish, no more we want : 
To know, to serve thee, and to love, 
Is peace below, — is bliss above. 



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73. s. m. 

Virtuous Desires. Ps. xxv. 

1 O God ! thou just and kind, 
The erring mind instruct, 

And to the paths of righteousness 
Its wandering steps conduct. 

2 Do thou the humble guide, 
And teach the meek thy way ; 

Kindness and truth be shown to all, 
Who thee in truth obey. 

3 Let no events cast down 
Those who from evil flee ; 

Nor disappointment shame their hopes, 
Who wait, O Lord ! on thee. 

4 Give me the tender heart 
That mixes fear with love ; 

And lead me through whatever path 
Thy wisdom shall approve. 

5 O ! ever keep my soul 

From error, shame, and guilt ; 
Nor suffer the fair hope to fail, 
Which on thy truth is built. 

74. c. m. 

Spiritual Blessings implored. 

1 Fountain of blessing ! God of love ! 
To thee our hearts we raise ; 
Thine all-sustaining power we prove, 
And gladly sing thy praise. 



Part IL] THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER. 

2 Thine, wholly thine, we long to be ; 

Our sacrifice receive ; 
Made, and preserved, and saved by thee, 
To thee ourselves we give. 

3 Heaven-ward our every wish aspires ; 

For all thy mercy's store, 
The sole return thy love requires, 
Is, that we ask for more. 

4 For more we ask ; we open, Lord, 

Our hearts t' embrace thy will ; 
Renew us by thy heavenly word, 
And from thy fulness, fill. 

5 O may we travel all the length 

Of the celestial road ; 
And come, reposing on thy strength, 
To see thy face, O God ! 

75. c. m. 

Prayer for Divine Aid and Guidance. 

1 Eternal Source of light and thought ! 

Supremely good and wise ! 
To thee we bring our grateful vows, 
To thee lift up our eyes. 

2 Thine influence, God of grace ! is felt 

Through nature's ample round ; 
In heaven, on earth, thro' air and skies, 
Thine energy is found. 

3 This sacred influence richly grant 

To form our hearts anew ; 
O cleanse our souls from every sin, 
And thy salvation show ! 



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4 Father of lights ! thine aid dispense, 

To guide our doubtful way ; 
Thy truth shall scatter every cloud, 
And make a glorious day. 

5 Enlightened and sustained by thee, 

We'll do and bear thy will ; 
Thy grace shall make each burden light, 
And every murmur still. 

<5 O safely guide us by that grace, 
Through life's perplexing road, 
To pleasures which forever flow 
From thy right hand, O God ! 

76. c. m. 

The Universal Prayer. 

2 Father of all ! whose cares extend 
To earth's remotest shore, 
From every clime let praise ascend, 
And every age adore. 

2 Thou great first cause, least understood^ 

Who all my sense confined, 
To know but this — that thou art good, 
And that myself am blind. 

3 What conscience dictates to be done, 

Or warns me not to do : 
This, teach me more than hell to shun, 
That, more than heaven pursue. 

4 Save me alike from foolish pride, 

Or impious discontent ; 
At aught thy wisdom has denied, 
Or aught thy goodness lent. 



Part IT.] THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER. 

5 Teach me to feel another's woe, 

To hide the fault I see : 

That mercy I to others show, 

That mercy show to me. 

<3 To thee, whose temple is all space, 
Whose altar, earth, sea, skies, 
One chorus let all beings raise, 
All nature's incense rise ! 

77. €. M. 

The Universal Prayer. 

1 O Lord ! to earth's contracted span 

Thy love I would not bound ; 
Or think thee kind alone to man, 
When thousand worlds are round. 

2 Let not this weak, unknowing hand 

Presume thy bolts to throw ; 
And deal damnation round the land, 
On each I judge thy foe. 

3 If I am right, thy grace impart, 

Still in the right to stay ; 
If I am wrong, O teach my heart 
To find that better way. 

4 Mean though I am, not wholly so, 

Since quickened by thy breath ; 
O lead me, wheresoe'er I go, 
Thro' this day's life, or death. 

5 This day be bread and peace my lot ; — 

But all beneath the sun, 
Thou knowest if best bestowed or not ; 
And let thy will be done.. 



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78. c. m 

Paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer. 

1 Father in heaven ! thy sacred name 

In hallowed strains be sung ; 
Thy kingdom spread o'er all the earth ; 
Thy praise fill every tongue. 

2 By happy spirits round thy throne, 

As thy commands are done ; 
So be thy perfect will obeyed, 
By all beneath the sun. 

3 Our numerous wants are known to thee, 

Who canst alone supply ; 
O grant, each day, our daily bread, 
Nor other good deny. 

4 Forgive our sins, as we forgive 

The wrongs that others do ; 
Nor let temptations press around, 
Lest we those sins renew. 

5 Thou art our safety and defence, 

When dangers threatening stand ; 
O turn aside impending ills, 
With thy Almighty hand. 

6 Thy sacred name we thus adore 

With cheerful, humble mind ; 
And praise thy goodness, power, and truth 
Eternal, unconfined ! 



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FOR PARTICULAR SUBJECTS OF DIS- 
COURSES. 



79. L. M. 

The Voice of God in his Works. Ps. xix. 4—6. 

1 The spacious firmament on high, 
With all the blue etherial sky, 

And spangled heavens, a shining frame, 

Their great original proclaim. 

The unwearied sun, from day to day 

Doth his. Creator's power display ; 

And publishes to every land, 

The work of an Almighty hand. 

2 Soon as the evening shades prevail, 
The v moon takes up the wond'rous tale ; 
And nightly to the listening earth 
Repeats the story of her birth : 

Whilst all the stars which round her burn ; 
And all the planets in their turn, 
Confirm the tidings as they roll, 
\jqc1 spread the truth from pole to pole. 



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3 What though, in solemn silence, all 
Move round this dark terrestrial ball ; 
What though no real voice nor sound, 
Amidst their radiant orbs be found : 
In reason's ear they all rejoice, 

And utter forth a glorious voice ; 
Forever singing, as they shine — 
" The hand that made us is divine." 

80. L. M. 

The Voice of Nature. 

1 There is a God, all nature speaks, 
Through earth, and air, and seas, and skies ; 
See, from the clouds his glory breaks, 
When the first beams of morning rise ! 

2 The rising sun serenely bright, 

O'er the wide world's extended frame, 
Inscribes, in characters of light, 
His mighty Maker's glorious name. 

2 Diffusing life, his influence spreads, 
And health and plenty smile around ; 
And fruitful fields and verdant meads, 
Are with a thousand blessings crowned. 

4 Almighty goodness, power divine, 

The hills, and vales, and groves display ; 
And bless the hand that made them shine, 
With various charms profusely gay. 

5 The flowery tribes all blooming rise 
Above the faint attempts of art : 
Their bright inimitable dyes 
Speak sweet conviction to the heart. 



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6 Ye curious minds, who roam abroad, 
And trace creation's wonders o'er ! 
Confess the footsteps of the God, 
And bow before him and adore. 

81. L. M. 

The one living and true God. Ps. lxxxvi. 

1 Eternal God ! Almighty cause 

Of earth, and seas, and worlds unknown ! 
All things are subject to thy laws ; 
All things depend on thee alone. 

2 Thy glorious being singly stands, 
Of all within itself possest; 

By none controlled in thy commands, 
And in thyself completely blest. 

3 Worship to thee alone belongs ; 
Worship to thee alone we give ; 

Thine be our hearts, and thine our songs, 
And to thy glory we would live. 

4 Spread thy great name thro' every land, 
All idol deities dethrone : 

Subdue the world to thy command, 
And reign unrivalled, God alone. 

82. p. m. 

" Jehovah, our God, is one." Mark xii. 29 

1 Thou, God, who reignst alone 
O'er earth, and sea, and sky, 
Let man with praises own, 
And sound thy honours high. 



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2 Thee all in heaven above, 

Thee all on earth below, 
Th' exhaustless source of love, 
The great creator know. 

3 God formed the living frame, 

He gave the reasoning mind ;— 
Then only he may claim 
The worship of mankind. 

4 So taught thine only son, 

Blessed messenger of grace ? 
Th' eternal is but one, 

No second holds his place. 

83. L. M. 

To the unknown God. 

Great God ! in vain man's narrow view 
Attempts to look thy nature through ; 
Our laboring powers with reverence own, 
Thy glories never can be known. 

Not the high seraph's mighty thought, 
Who countless years his God has sought, 
Such wondrous height or depth can find, 
Or fully trace thy boundless mind. 

And yet thy kindness deigns to show 
Enough for mortal minds to know; 
While wisdom, goodness, power divine, 
Thro' all thy works and conduct shine. 

O ! may our souls with rapture trace 
Thy works of nature and of grace ; 
Explore thy sacred truth, and still 
Press on to know and do thy will. 



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84. L. M. 

The Divine Perfections above our Comprehension.. 
Job xi & xxvi. 

1 Can creatures to perfection find 
TV eternal, uncreated mind ? 

Or can the largest stretch of thought 
Measure and search his nature out ? 

2 'Tis high as heaven, 'tis deep as hell, 
And what can mortals know or tell ? 
His glory spreads through all the sky, 
And all the shining worlds on high. 

3 He frowns, and darkness veils the moon ; 
The fainting sun grows dim at noon ; 
The pillars of heaven's starry roof 
Tremble and start at his reproof. 

4 These are a portion of his ways ; 
But who shall utter all his praise ! 
Who can endure his light, or stand 
To hear the thunders of his hand f 

85. L. M. 

The Majesty of God. Isa. xl. 15, 16, 17. 

1 Ye weak inhabitants of clay, 
Ye trifling insects of a day ! 

Low in your native dust bow down 
Before th' Eternal's awful throne. 

2 With trembling heart, with solemn eye, 
Behold Jehovah seated high ; 

And search what worthy sacrifice 

Your hands can give, your thoughts devise 

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3 Let Lebanon her cedars bring 

To blaze before the sovereign King ; 
And all the beasts, that on it feed, 
As victims at his altar bleed. 

4 Loud let ten thousand trumpets sound, 
And call remotest nations round, 
Assembled on the crowded plains, 
Princes and people, kings and swains. 

5 Joined with the living, let the dead, 
Rising, the face of earth o'erspread ; 
And while his praise unites their tongues, 
Let angels echo back the songs. 

6 The drop that from the bucket falls, 
The dust that hangs upon the scales, 
Is more to sky, and earth, and sea, 
Than all this pomp, great God I to thee. 

86. c. m. 

God's Eternal Dominion. 

1 Great God ! how infinite art thou I 

How frail and helpless we ! 
Let the whole race of creatures bow, 
And pay their praise to thee. 

2 Thy throne eternal ages stood, 

Ere seas or stars were made ; 
Thou art the ever-living God, 
Were all the nations dead. 

3 Nature and time all open lie 

To thine immense survey, 
From the formation of the sky, 
To the last awful clay. 



Part III.] AND PERFECTIONS. 

4 Eternity, with all its years, 
Stands present to thy view ; 
To thee there ? s nothing old appears, 
Great God ! there 's nothing new. 

3 Our lives through varying scenes are drawn, 
And vexed v, ith trifling cares, 
While thine eternal thought moves on 
Thine undisturbed affairs. 

6 Great God ! how infinite art thou ! 
How frail and helpless we ! 
Let the whole race of creatures bow, 
And pay their praise to thee. 

37. L. M. 

God Eternal and Immutable. 

1 ALL-powerful, self-existent God, 
Who all creation dost sustain ! 
Thou wast, and art, and art to come;, 
And everlasting is thy reign ! 

-2 Fixed aad eternal as thy days, 
Each glorious attribute divine, 
Through ages infinite, shall still 
With undiminished lustre shine. 

3 Fountain of being ! Source of good ! 
Immutable thou dost remain ! 

Ncr can the shadow of a change 
Obscure the glories of thy reign. 

4 Nature her order shall reverse, 
Revolving seasons cease their round ; 
Nor spring appear with blooming pride, 
Nor autumn be with plenty crowned : 



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5 Yon shining orbs forget their course, 
The sun his destined path forsake, 
And burning desolation mark 
Amid the world his devious track : 

6 Earth may with all her powers dissolve. 
If such the great Creator's will : 

But thou forever art the same, 
I am is thy memorial still. 

88. 10s. M. 

The unrivalled Power and Dominion of God. 

1 Thou, who with wide and absolute command, 
Swayest the broad ocean and the steadfast land ; 
Who reign'st on high, unbounded and alone, 
While all creation hangs upon thy throne ; 

2 This earthly globe, the creature of a day, 
Tho' built by thy right hand, must pass away ; 
And long oblivion creep o'er mortal things, 
The fate of empires and the pride of kings : 

3 The sun himself, with gathering clouds opprest, 
Shall in his silent, dark pavilion rest ; 

His golden urn shall break, and useless lie, 
Amid the common ruins of the sky ; 

4 But fixed, O God ! forever stands thy throne : 
Jehovah reigns, a universe alone : 

Th' eternal fire that feeds each vital flame, 
Collected, or diffused, is still the same. 

5 But oh ! our highest notes the theme debase, 
And silence is our least injurious praise : 
Cease, cease your songs, the daring flight con- 
trol; 

Revere him in the stillness of the soul. 



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89. L. M. 

God's universal Knowledge and Presence. Ps. cxxxix. 

1 Parent of all ! omniscient mind ! 
Thy wisdom who can comprehend ? 
Its highest point what eye can find, 
Or to its lowest depths descend ? 

2 What cavern deep, what hill sublime, 
Beyond thy reach, shall I pursue? 
What dark recess, what distant clime, 
Shall hide me from thy boundless view ? 

3 If up to heaven's ethereal height, 
Thy prospect to elude, I rise ; 

In splendour there, supremely bright, 
Thy presence shall my sight surprise. 

4 Thee, mighty God ! my wondering soul. 
Thee, all her conscious powers adore ; 
Whose being circumcribes the whole, 
Wliose eyes the universe explore. 

5 Thine essence fills this breathing frame, 
It glows in every vital part ; 

Lights up my soul with livelier flame. 
And feeds with life my beating heart. 

(5 To thee from whom my being came, 
Whose smile is all the heaven I know, 
Inspired with this exalted theme, 
To thee my grateful strains shall flow. 

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90. L. M. 

The all-seeing God. Ps. cxxxix. 

1 Lord, thou hast searched and seen me through ; 
Thine eye commands, with piercing view, 
My waking an<: my sleeping hours, 

My heart and flesh, with all their powers, 

2 My thoughts, before they are my own, 
Are to my God distinctly known : 

He knows the words I mean to speak, 
Ere from my opening lips they break. 

3 Within thy circling power I stand ; 
On every side I find thy hand : 
Awake, asleep, at home, abroad, 

I am surrounded still with God. 

4 Amazing knowledge, vast and great ! 
What large extent ! what lofty height ! 
My soul, with all the powers I boast. 
Is in the boundless prospect lost. 

5 Could I so false, so faithless prove, 
To quit thy service and thy love, 
Where, Lord, could I thy influence shun. 
Or whither from thy presence run ? 

6 Could I the wings of morning gain, 
And fly beyond the western main, 
Thy swifter hand would first arrive. 
And there arrest the fugitive. 

7 Or should I try to shun thy sight 
Beneath the spreading veil of night. 
One glance of thine, one piercing ray. 
Would kindle darkness into dav. 



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8 O may these thoughts possess my breast. 
Where'er I rove, where'er I rest ! 
Nor let my weaker passions dare 
Consent to sin ; for God is ther^, 

91. C. M. j 

Assurance of the divine Presence. Isa. xli. 10. 

1 And art thou with us, gracious Lord ! 

To dissipate our fear ! 
Dost thou proclaim thyself our God, 
Our God forever near ? 

2 Doth thy right hand which formed the earth, 

And bears up all the skies, 
Stretch from on high its friendly aid, 
When dangers round us rise ? 

3 And wilt thou lead our weary souls 

To that delightful scene, 
Where rivers of salvation flow 
Through pastures ever green. 

4 On thy support our souls shall lean, 

And banish every care ; 
The gloomy vale of death will smile, 
If God be with us there. 

5 While we his gracious succour prove, 

'Midst all our various ways, 
The darkest shades, through which we pass, 
Shall echo with his praise. 



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92. c. m. 

Universal Presence of God. 

1 My hear (land all my ways, O God ! 

By thee *;re searched and seen ; 
My outward tscts thine eye observes, 
My secret thoughts within. 

2 Attendant on my steps, ail day 

Thy providence I see ; 
And in the solitude of night 
I'm present still with thee. 

3 No spot the boundless realms of space 

Whence thou art absent, know ; 
In heaven thou reign'st a glorious King, 
An awful judge below. 

4 Goodness, and majesty, and power, 

Through all thy works are shown ; 
Richly displayed in nature's frame, 
And richly in my own. 

5 To all my parts their place and uss 

Thy wisdom had assigned, 
Ere yet those parts a being had, 
But in thy forming mind. 

GO! if within my thoughtless heart, 
Thou aught should'st disapprove, 
The secret evil bring to light, 
And by thy grace remove. 

7 If e'er my ways have been perverse, 
Or foolish in thy view, 
Recall my steps to thy commands, 
And form my life anew. 



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93. c. m. 

The universal Presence and Providence of God, 

1 Great God, how vast is thine abode ! 

Mysterious are thy ways ! 
Unseen, thy footsteps in the air, 

And trackless in the seas. 

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2 Yet, the whole peopled world bespeaks 

Thy being and thy power, 
Mid the resplendant blaze of day, 
And awful midnight hour. 

3 Nor all the peopled word alone, 

Rich fields and verdant plains, 
But lonely wilds by man untrod, 
Where silent horror reigns. 

4 The howling wind, the beating rain, 

The sea's tumultuous roar, 
These in tremendous concert joined, 
Proclaim thy boundless power. 

5 Through all creation's widest range 

The hand of heaven is near : 
Where'er I wander in the world, 
Lo ! God is present there. 

94. c. m. 

Universal Goodness of God. 

1 Lord ! thou art good : all nature shows 

Its mighty author kind : 
Thy bounty through creation flows, 
Full, free, and unconfined. 

2 The whole, and every part proclaims 

Thine infinite good will ; 



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It shines in stars, and flows in streams, 
And blooms on every hill. 

3 We view it o'er the spreading main, 

And heavens which spread more wide ; 
It drops in gentle showers of rain, 
And rolls in every tide. 

4 Long hath it been diffused abroad, 

Through ages pasoand gone ; 
Nor ever can exhausted be, 
But still keeps flowing on. 

5 Through the vast whole it pours supplies, 

Spreads joy through every part : 
O may such love attract my eyes, 
And captivate my heart ! 

6 My highest admiration raise, 

My best affections move ! 
Employ my tongue in songs of praise, 
And fill my heart with love ! 

95. L. Bf, 

The Divine Goodness. Ps. xxxiv. 8, 9. 

1 Triumphant, Lord ! thy goodness reigns 
Through all the wide celestial plains ; 
And its full streams redundant flow, 
Down to th ? abodes of men below. 

2 Thro' nature's works thy glories shine ; 
The cares of providence are thine : 
And thou hast raised within our frame 
A fairer temple to thy name. 

3 O give to every human heart, 

To taste and feel how good thou art ; 



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With grateful love, and reverent fear ? 
To know how blest thy children are. 

4 Let nature burst into a song : 

Ye echoing hills, the notes prolong ! 
Earth, seas, and stars, your anthems raise. 
All vocal with your Maker's praise ! 

5 Join, O my soul ! the general song,. 
To thee its sweetest notes belong ; 
Blest above all by love divine, 

To praise is eminently thine. 



96. c. m. 

The Divine Foreknowledge "and Decrees. 

1 Let all creation humbled lie, 

Before their Maker God ! 
Whate'er his powerful hand has formed, 
He governs with a word. 

2 Life, death, and hell, and worlds unknown, 

Hang on his firm decree ; 
He sits on no precarious throne, 
Nor borrows leave to be. 

3 Unnumbered ages ere the skies 

Were into motion brought, 
Whate'er through endless years should rise, 
Stood present to his thought. 

4 His mighty voice bade ancient night 

Her endless realms resign ; 
And lo ! ten thousand globes of light 
In fields of azure shine. 

j There 's not a sparrow nor a worm 
Overlooked in his decrees : 



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He raises monarchs to a throne, 
Or sinks with equal ease. 

6 If light attend the course we go, 

'Tis he provides the rays ; 
And 'tis his hand that hides the sun, 
If darkness cloud our days. 

7 Trusting thy wisdom, God of love ! 

We would not wish to know 
What in the book of thy decrees 
Awaits us here below. 

8 Be this alone our fervent prayer ; 

Whate'er our lot shall be, 
Or joys or sorrows may they form 
Our souls for heaven, and thee ! 

97. c. m. 



God the Creator. Gen. i. 

1 O Lord, how excellent thy name f 

How glorious to behold, 
Engraven fair on all thy works 
In characters of gold ! 

2 On heaven's immeasurable face, 

In lines immensely great; 
In small, on every leaf and flower, 
Creator-God is writ. 

3 By his almighty word at first, 

The arch of heaven was reared ; 
And all the beauteous host of light 
At his command appeared. 

4 Above the ocean, dark and wild, 

Arose the swelling land; 



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And raging waves in narroV. T er bounds, 
Obev the high command 1 . 

5 With herbs, and plants, and fruitful trees, 

He crowned the new formed earth ; 
And to the various brutal tribes, 
Ordained their wondrous birth, 

6 Then man, the last and noblest work 

Of all this nether frame, 
With the first vital breath he drew, 
Confessed from whence he came. 

7 Let earth, and all that dwell therein, 

Before him trembling stand ; 
Who spake ! and all creation rose 
Beneath his forming hand. 

98. c. m. 

God the Preserver of the Course of Nature. 

1 The starry hosts in order move, 

Observant of their bounds ; 

And every year, and every day 

The sun repeats his rounds. 

2 While generations rise and fall, 

Immortal is the race ; 
And time may shift the fading scenes, 
But not the earth displace. 

3 What winter's withering breath destroys, 

The following spring supplies ; 
And age, in vigorous youth renewed, 
Beholds itself, and dies. 

4 The life by thee preserved, O God ! 

Shall all be spent for thee : 
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And flawing bear thy praise along 
To vast eternity. 

99. L. M. 

(Sod the Sr,uice of Life ^the whole Creation. P^. eiv. 

1 How vast thy works., Almighty Lord ! 
Ail nature rests upon thy word ! 
Thy glories in the heavens we see, 
The spacious earth is full of thee. 

2 The countless tribes of creatures stand, 
Waiting their portion from thy hand : 
And while they take their various food, 
Their cheerful looks pronounce thee good> 

3 If thou the vital air deny, 
Behold them sicken, faint, and die ; 
Dust to its kindred dust returns, 

And earth her ruined offspring mourns. 

4 But scon thy breath her loss supplies : 
She sees a new-born race arise, 
And, o'er her regions scattered wide, 
The blessings of thy hand divide. 

5 To God in joyful strains my tongue 
Shall pour the tributary song ! 

And long as breath inspires my frame. 
The wonders of his love proclaim. 

100. C. M. 

God, our constant Benefactor. 

1 Thou great Creator, Father, Lord I 
Kind guardian of my days ! 
Thy mercies let my heart record 
In songs of grateful praise. 



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2 In life's first dawn my tender frame 

Was thine indulgent care, 
Long ere I could pronounce thy name, 
Or breathe the infant prayer. 

3 When reason with my stature grew, 

How weak her brightest ray ! 
How little of my God I knew ! 
How apt from thee to stray ! 

4 What countless blessings round me shone. 

Where'er I turned mine eye ! 
How many past almost unknown. 
Or unregarded, by ! 

5 Around my path what dangers rose ! 

What snares o'erspread my road ! 
No power could guard me from my foes, 
But m} r preserver, God. 

6 When life hung trembling on a breath, 

7 Twas thine unceasing love 
That saved me from impending death, 
And bade my fears remove. 

f Each rolling year new favours brought 
From thine exhaustless store ; 
But ah ! in vain my laboring thought 
Would count thy mercies o'er. 

8 Lord, when this mortal frame decays, 
And every weakness dies, 
Complete the wonders of thy grace, 
And raise me to the skies. 



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101. L. M. 

Dependance of all Creatures on Providence. 

1 O Lord of earth, and seas, and skies ! 
Thy wealth the needy world supplies ; 
All that is good thou wilt impart, 
And all impending ill avert. 

2 Supplied from thine unbounded store, 
How much we owe ; yet need we more : 
Stdl on that care our hopes depend, 
Which will to every want extend. 

3 What though alarms our peace invade ? 
Our refuge is beneath thy shade ; 

Our trust in thine Almighty love 
Bids every groundless fear remove. 

4 Nor to the human race alone, 

Is thy paternal goodness shown ; 
The tribes of earth, and sea, and air, 
Partake the universal care. 

5 Not e'en a sparrow yields its breath, 
Till God permit the stroke of death : 
He hears the ravens when they call, 
The father and the friend of all. 

102. c. m. 

Confidence in God our Father. 

1 O God ! on thee we all depend, 
On thy paternal care ; 
Thou wilt the father and the friend, 
In every act appear. 



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2 With open hand and liberal heart 

Thou wilt our wants supply ; 
Thy heavenly blessings still impart, 
And no good thing deny. 

3 Thou canst discern what *s good and fit, 

And wisdom guides thy love ; 
To thine appointments we submit, 
And every choice approve. 

4 In thy parental love and care, 

With cheerful hearts we trust ; 
Thy tender mercies boundless are, 
And all thy ways are just. 

5 We cannot want, while God provides ; 

What lie ordains is best ; 
And Heaven, whate'er we want beside. 
Will give eternal rest. 



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103. 6 1 L. M. 

God our Shepherd. Ps. xxiii. 

The Lord my pasture shall prepare, 
And feed me with a shepherd's care, 
His presence shall my wants supply, 
And guard me with a watchful eye : 
My noon-day walks he shall attend, 
And all my midnight hours defend. 

When in the sultry glebe I faint, 
Or on the thirsty mountain pant ; 
To fertile vales and dewy meads 
My weary, wandering steps he leads ; 
Where peaceful rivers, soft and slow, 
Amid the verdant landscape flow. 



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3 Though in a bare and rugged way, 
Through devious, lonely wilds I stray, 
Thy bounty shall my pains beguile : 
The barren wilderness shall smile, 

With sudden greens and herbage crowned, 
And streams shall murmur all around. 

4 Though in the paths of death I tread, 
With gloomy horrors overspread, 
My steadfast heart shall fear no ill ; 
For thou, O Lord ! art with me still ; 
Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, 
And guide me through the dreadful shade. 

104. c. m. 

God every where the Refuge of his Servants. 

1 How are thy servants blest, O Lord ! 

How sure is their defence ! 
Eternal wisdom is their guide, 
Their help, omnipotence. 

2 In foreign realms, and lands remote, 

Supported by thy care, 
They pass unhurt through burning climes, 
And breathe in tainted air. 

3 Thy mercy sweetens every soil, 

Makes every region please ; 
The hoary frozen hills it warms, 
And smooths the boisterous seas. 

4 Though by the dreadful tempest tossed 

High on the broken wave, 
They know thou art not slow to hear, 
Nor impotent to save. 






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5 The storm is laid, the winds retire 



Obedient to thy will : 
The sea, that roars at thy command, 
At thy command is still. 

6 From all our griefs and straits, O Lord ! 

Thy mercy sets us free, 
While in the confidence of prayer, 
Our hearts take hold on thee. 

7 In midst of dangers, fears, and death, 

Thy goodness we ? 11 adore ; 
And praise thee for thy mercies past, 
And humbly hope for more. 

8 Our lives, while thou prcserv'st our lives, 

' Thy sacrifice shall be ; 
And, O may death, when death shall come. 
Unite our souls to thee ! 

105. L. M. 

Man's Dependence on God. 

1 Through all the various shifting scene 
Of life's mistaken ill or good, 

Thy hand,0 God ! conducts unseen, 
The beautiful vicissitude. 

2 Thou givest with paternal care, 
Howe'er unjustly we complain, 
To all their necessary share 

Of joy and sorrow, health and pain. 

3 Trust we to youth, or friends, or power ? 
Fix we on this terrestrial ball ? 

When most secure, the coming hour, 
. If thou seest fit, may blast them all. 



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4 All things on earth, and all in heaven, 
On thine eternal will depend ; 

And all for greater good were given, 
Would man pursue the appointed end. 

5 Be this my care ! — to all beside 
Indifferent let my wishes be ; 
Passion be calm, and dumb be pride, 
And fixed my soul, great God ! on thee. 

106. L. M. 

Equity of the Divine Dispensations. 

1 Who, gracious Father ! shall complain 
Under thy mild and equal reign ? 
Who does a weight of duty share, 

More than his aids and powers can bear ? 

2 With differing climes, and differing lands, 
With fertile plains, and barren sands, 
Thy hand hath framed this earthly round, 
And set each nation in its bound. 

3 Varied alike, thy moral ray 

Here sheds a full, there fainter day ; 
The God of all, unkind to none, 
To all the path of life has shown. 

4 O the abounding grace which brought 
To us, the words by Jesus taught ! 

So blest and with such hopes inspired, 
How much is given, how much required .' 



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107. c. m. 

God no respecter of persons. 

1 With eye impartial, heaven's high King 

Surveys each human tribe ; 
No earthly pomp thy eyes can charm. 
Nor wealth thy favour bribe. 

2 The rich and poor, of equal clay 

Thy powerful hand did frame ; 
All souls are thine, and thee alike 
Their common Parent claim. 

3 Thou oft dost visit in thy love 

The captive's lonely cell ; 
And with the penitent who mourns, 
? Tis thy delight to dwell : 

4 The downcast spirit to revive, 

The sorrowful to cheer ; 
And from the bed of dust, to raise 
The man of heart sincere. 

5 With thee, dwells no relentless wrath 

Against the human race : 
The souls which thou hast formed, shall fincl 
A refuge in thy grace. 

108. c. m. 

The Mystery and Benignity of Providence. 

1 God moves in a mysterious way, 
His wonders to perform : 
He plants his footsteps in the sea, 
And rides upon the storm. 



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2 Deep in unfathomable mines 

Of never-failing skill, 
He treasures up his great designs, 
And works his sovereign will. 

3 Ye fearful saints ! fresh courage take : 

The clouds ye so much dread, 
Are big with mercy, and will break 
In blessings on your head. 

4 Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, 

But trust him for his grace : 
Behind a frowning providence 
He hides a smiling face. 

5 His purposes will ripen fast, 

Unfolding every hour : 
The bud may have a bitter taste, 
But sweet will be the flower. 

6 Blind unbelief is sure to err, 

And scan his work in vain : 
God is his own interpreter, 
And he will make it plain. 

109. L. M. 

Faith in God in the Darkness of Providences 

1 Lord ! we adore thy vast designs, 
The obscure abyss of providence, — 
Too deep to sound with mortal lines, 
Too dark to view with feeble sense. 

2 Now clcuds obscure thine awful face, 
And gathering darkness veils thy smtfe, 
Yet thro' the clouds we see thy grace, 
And trust in thy compassion still. 



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3 Thro 7 every scene of deep distress. 
We walk by faith and not by sight ; 
Faith guides us in the wilderness, 
And cheers the gloom of darkest night. 

4 Father ! if thou with lifted rod 
Resolve to scourge us here below, 
Still may we lean on thee our God, 
And may thine arm support us through. 

110. S. M. 

Confidence in the Divine Government. 

1 Give to the winds thy fears; 
Hope and be undismayed; 

God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears, 
He shall lift up thy head. 

2 Through waves, and clouds, and storms, 
He gently clears thy way ; 

Wait thou his time, so shall this night 
Soon end in joyous day. 

3 What though thou rulest not ; 
Yet heaven, and earth, and hell 

Proclaim, God sitteth on the throne, 
And ruleth all things well. 

4 Thou seest our weakness, Lord ; 
Our hearts are known to thee ; 

O lift thou up the sinking head, 
Confirm the feeble knee. 

5 To each thou dost divide 
His lot of good and ill ; 

Nor this too great, nor that too small, 
•Ordained by heaven's high will. 



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5 Let man conform his mind 
To every changing state ; 
Rejoicing now, and now resigned, 
And the great issue wait. 

Hopeful and humble take 
Thy evil and thy good ; 
Nor by presumption nor despair- 
Weak mortal, be subdued. 

111. C. M. 

The Vicissitudes of Providence. 

1 The gifts, indulgent heaven bestows, 

Are variously conveyed ; 
The human mind, like nature, knows 
Alternate light and shade. 

2 While changing aspect all things wear, 

Can we expect to find 
Unclouded sunshine all the year, 
Or constant peace of mind? 

3 More gaily smiles the blooming spring, 

When wintry storms are o'er; 
Retreating sorrow thus may bring 
Delights unknown before. 

4 Then, Christian ! send thy fears away, 

Nor sink in gloomy care ; 
Though clouds o'erspread the scene to day, 
To-morrow mav be fair. 



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112. L. M. 

God the Protector of Innocence. Ps. x. 

1 What eyes like thine, Eternal Sire ! 
Thro' sin's obscurest depths inquire ? 
What hand, like thine, on virtue's foes 
The needful judgments can impose? 

2 The meek observer of thy laws 

To thee commits his inj ared cause : 
In thee, each anxious fear resigned, 
The fatherless a father find. 

3 Thine is the throne ; beneath thy reign, 
Thou sovereign King ! the tribes profane 
Behold their dreams of conquest o'er, 
And vanish, to be seen no more. 

4 'Tis thine the orphan's cheek to dry, 
The guiltless sufferer's cause to try ; 
To rein each earth-born tryant's will, 
And bid the sons of pride be still. 

113. C. M. 

" God is our Refuge and Strength." Ps. xlvi. 

1 On God supreme our hope depends, 

Whose omnipresent sight 
E'en to the pathless realms extends 
Of uncreated night. 

2 Plunged in th' abyss of deep distress, 

To him we raised our cry ; 
His mercy bade our sorrows cease, 
And filled our tongue with joy. 
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3 Though earth her ancient seat forsake, 

By pangs convulsive torn, 
Though her self-balanced fabric shake, 
And ruined nature mourn ; 

4 Though hills be in the ocean lost, 

With all their trembling load ; 
No fear shall e'er disturb the just, 
Or shake his trust in God. 

5 Nations remote and realms unknown, 

In vain resist his sway; 
For Lo ! Jehovah's voice is shown, 
And earth shall melt away. 

6 Let war's devouring surges rise, 

And swell on every side ; 
The Lord of hosts our safeguard is, 
And Jacob's God our guide. 



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God the intellectual Light. 2 Cor. iv. 6. 

Praise to the Lord of boundless might, 
With uncreated glories bright ! 
His presence gilds the worlds above ; 
The unchanging source of light and love. 

Our rising earth his eye beheld, 
When in substantial darkness veiled, 
The shapeless chaos, nature's womb, 
Lay buried in eternal gloom. 

Let there be light ! Jehovah said, 
And light o'er all its face was spread : 
Nature, arrayed in charms unknown, 
Gav with its new-born lustre shone. 



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4 He sees the mind, when lost it lies 
In shades of ignorance and vice; 
And darts from heaven a vivid ray, 
And changes midnight into day. 

5 Our souls, revived by heavenly light, 
Shall be in all thine image bright ; 
While all our faculties shall join 

To praise the Lord of light divine. 

115. L. M. 

The Divine Benignity in every Dispensation. Ps. ix. 10. 

1 Praise to his grace, who loud proclaims 
His various and his saving names ; 

O may they not be heard alone, 
But by our sure experience known ! 

2 The great Jehovah be adored, 
The eternal, all-sufficient jL,ord ! 
Through all the world most high confessed, 
By whom 'twas formed and is possessed. 

3 Awake, our noblest powers, to bless 
The God of Abr'am, God of peace ; 
Now by a dearer title known, 
Father and God of Christ his son. 

4 Through every age his gracious ear 
Is open to his servant's prayer ; 
Nor can one humble soul complain 
That it hath sought its God in vain. 

5 What unbelieving heart shall dare 
In whispers to suggest a fear, 
While still he owns his ancient name, 
The same his power, his love the same ? 



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6 To thee our souls in faith arise, 
To thee we lift expecting eyes, 
And boldly through the desert tread ; 
For God will guard where God shall lead. 

116. S. M. 

Jesus Christ the Light of the World. 

1 Behold the Prince of peace ! 
The chosen of the Lord, 

God's well-beloved Son, fulfils 
The sure prophetic word. 

2 No royal pomp adorns 
This king of righteousness : 

Meekness and patience, truth and love 
Compose his princely dress. 

3 The spirit of the Lord, 
In rich abundance shed, 

On this great prophet gently lights, 
And rests upon his head. 

4 Jesus, the light of men ! 
His doctrine life imparts : 

O may we feel its quickening power 
To warm and glad our hearts ! 

5 Cheered by its beams, our souls 
Shall run the heavenly way : 

The path which Christ has marked and trod. 
Will lead to endless day. 



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117. C. M. 

The Mission of Jesus Christ. Luke iv. 18, 19. 

1 Hark, the glad sound ! the Saviour comes ! 

The Saviour promised long ! 
Let every heart a throne prepare ; 
And every voice a song ! 

2 On him the spirit largely poured, 

Exerts its holy fire ; 
Wisdom and might, and zeal and love, 
His sacred breast inspire. 

3 He comes the prisoner to release, 

In wretched bondage held ; 
The gates of brass before him burst, 
The iron fetters yield. 

4 He comes, from thickest films of vice 

To clear the mental ray ; 
And on the eye-balls of the blind, 
To pour celestial day. 

5 He comes, the broken heart to bind, 

The wounded soul to cure: 
And with the treasures of his grace, 
T' enrich the humble poor. 

(3 Our songs of joy and gratitude 
His welcome shall proclaim ! 
Hail to the prince of peace, who comes 
In God our Father's name ! 

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The first and second coming of Jesus. Ps. xcvi. 

1 Sing to the Lord, ye distant lands ! 

Ye tribes of every tongue ! 
His new-discovered grace demands 
A new and nobler song. 

2 Say to the nations, Jesus came 

A guilty world to save ; 
From vice and error to reclaim, 
And rescue from the grave. 

3 Let heaven proclaim the joyful day : 

Joy through the earth be seen ; 
Let cities shine in bright array, 
And fields in cheerful green. 

4 With pleasure lift your wondering eyes, 

Ye islands of the sea ! 
Ye mountains ! sink ; ye valleys ! rise ; 
Prepare the Saviour's way. 

5 Behold he comes ! he comes to bless 

The nations from their God ; 
To show the world his righteousness. 
And send his truth abroad. 

6 Again he comes, with powerful voice 

To wake the numerous dead, 
And call his churches to rejoice 
With their exalted head. 

7 When he, who is our life, draws near, 

And all his glory view, 
His faithful servants shall appear 
With him in glory too. 






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119. H. M. 

The Efficacy of the Gospel. Isa. lv. 10, II. 

1 Mark the soft-falling snow, 
And the descending rain ! 

To heaven from whence it fell, 
It turns not back again ; 

But waters earth 

Thro' every pore, 

And calls forth all 

Her secret store. 

2 Arrayed in beauteous green 
The hills and valleys shine, 
And man and beast are fed 
By providence divine : 

The harvest bows 
Its golden ears, 
The copious seed 
Of future years. 

3 " So, " saith the God of grace, 
" My gospel shall descend, 
Almighty to effect 

The purpose I intend ; 
Millions of souls 
Shall feel its power, 
And bear it down 
To millions more." 

4 " Joy shall begin your march, 
And peace protect your ways, 
While all the mountains round 
Echo melodious praise : 

The vocal groves 
Shall sing the God, 
And every tree 
Consenting nod." 



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120. L. M. 

Jesus Christ the Sun of Righteousness. Mai. iv. 2, 

1 To thee, O God ! we homage pay, 
Source of the light that rules the day ! 
AVho, while he gilds all nature's frame. 
Reflects thy rays and speaks thy name. 

2 In louder strains we sing that grace, 
Which gives the sun of righteousness, 
Whose nobler light salvation brings, 
And scatters healing from his wings. 

3 Enlightened by his heavenly ray, 
Our shades and darkness turn to day ; 
His inward teachings make us know 
Our danger, and our refuge too. 

4 O may his glories stand confessed, 
From north to south, from east to west : 
Succesful may his gospel run, 

Wide as the circuit of the sun. 

5 When shall that radiant scene arise, 
AVhen fixed on high, in purer skies, 
Christ all his lustre shall display 

On all his saints through endless day ! 

121. S. M. 

Light and Redemption by the Gospel. 

} The traveller, lost in night, 

Breathes many a longing sigh, 
And marks the welcome dawn of light, 

With rapture in his eye. 



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2 Thus sweet the dawn of day 
Which weary sinners find, 

When mercy with reviving ray 
Beams o ? er the fainting mind. 

3 To slaves opprest with chains, 
How kind, how dear the friend, 

Whose generous hand relieves their pains. 
And bids their sorrows end ! 

4 Thus dear that friend divine, 
Who rescues captive souls; 

Unbinds the galling chains of sin, 
And all its power controls. 

5 My God ! to gospel light 
My dawn of hope I owe ; 

Once, wandering in the shades of night. 
And sunk in hopeless woe. 

6 Thy hand redeems the slave, 
And sets the prisoner free : 

Be all I am, and all I have, 
Devoted, Lord, to thee ! 

122. L. M. 

Jesus Christ the Image of the invisible God. 

1 Thou, Lord, by mortal eyes unseen, 
And by thine offspring here unknown, 
To manifest thyself to men, 

Hast set thine image in thy Son. 

2 As the bright sun's meridian blaze 
CTerwhelms and pains our feeble sight, 
But cheers us with his softer rays 
When shining with reflected light ; 



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3 So in thy Son, thy power divine. 
Thy wisdom, justice, truth, and love, 
With mild and pleasing lustre shine, 
Reflected from thy throne above. 

4 Though Jews, who granted not his claim, 
Contemptuous turned away their face ; 
Yet those who trusted in his name, 
Beheld in him thy truth and grace. 

5 O Thou ! at whose almighty word, 
Fair light at first from darkness shorn. ; 
Teach us to know our glorious Lord, 
And trace the Father in the Son. 

6 While we thine image there displayed ? 
With love and admiration view, 
Form us in likeness to our head, 
That we may bear thine image too. 

123. L. M. 

Miraculous Character of Jesus Christ. 

1 What works of wisdom, power, and Iove ? 
Do Jesus' high commission prove ! 
Attest his heaven-derived claim, 

And glorify his Father's name ! 

2 On eyes that never saw the day, 
He pours the bright celestial ray ; 
And deafened ears by him unbound, 
Catch all the harmony of sound. 

3 Lameness takes up its bed and goes 
Rejoicing in the strength that flows 
Through every nerve ; and free from pain. 
Pours forth to God the grateful strain. 



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4 The shattered mind his word restores^ 
And tunes afresh the mental powers ; 
The dead revive, to life return, 

And bid affection cease to mourn. 

5 Canst thou, my soul, these wonders trace, 
And not admire Jehovalrs grace ? 
Canst thou behold thy Saviours power, 
And not the God he served, adore ! 

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Jesus Christ the Messenger of Pardon. 

1 Raise your triumphant songs 
To an immortal tune ; 

Let the wide earth resound the deeds 
Celestial grace hath done. 

2 Sing how eternal love 
Its best-beloved chose ! 

And bade him raise our sinful race 
From an abyss of woes. 

3 Pardon and peace from heaven 
Jesus proclaims abroad ; 

And brings to erring, guilty man 
Sure mercy from his God. 

4 Then, sinners, dry your tears, 
Let hopeless sorrow cease ; 

Bow to the sceptre of his love, 
And take the offered peace. 

5 We joy to hear the call ; 

We bless the Saviour's name ; 

And praise the first Almighty cause^ 

From which such favour came. 



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Benignity of God in the Gospel. 

1 Praise to God the great Creator ! 
Bounteous source of every joy, 
He whose hand upholds all nature, 
He whose word can all destroy ! 
Saints, with pious zeal attending, 
Now the grateful tribute raise ; 
Solemn songs to heaven ascending, 
Join the universal praise. 

2 Light of those whose dreary dwelling 
Bordered on the shades of death, 
He, in Christ rich grace revealing, 
Scattered all the clouds beneath. 

Lo ! the eternal page before us 
Bears the covenant of his love, 
Fuli of mercy to restore us, 
Mercy beaming from above. 

S Father, source of all compassion, 
Pure, unbounded love thou art ; 
Hail the God of our salvation ; 
Praise him every thankful heart : 
Joyfully on earth adore him, 
Till in heaven our songs we raise ; 
There enraptured fall before him, 
Lost in wonder, love, and praise. 

126. L. M. 

Christian Privileges and Obligations. 

J. What countless myriads draw their breath 
In lands of ignorance and death, 



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While God allots my share of time, 
Within his gospel's favoured clime ! 

2 Shall I receive this grace in vain ? 
Shall I my great vocation stain ? 
Away, ye works in darkness wrought ! 
Away, each sensual, earthly thought ! 

3 My soul ! I charge thee to excel 
In thinking right and acting well ; 
Deep let thy searching powers engage, 
Unbiassed, in the sacred page. 

4 Heighten the force of good desire, 
To deeds of shining worth aspire ; 
More firm in fortitude, despise 
The world's seducing vanities. 

5 Strong and more strong thy passions rule, 
Advancing still in virtue's school ; 
Contending still, with noble strife, 

To imitate thy Saviour's life. 

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The Christian Church, a living Temple. 1 Pet. ii. 4, 5. 

1 With extacy of joy 
Extol his glorious name, 
Who raised the spacious earth, 
And formed the human frame ; 

He built the church, who built the sky> 
Shout and exalt his honours high. 

2 See the foundation laid 

By power and love divine ; 
In Christ his first-born son, 
How bright his glories shine ! 
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Low he descends, in dust he lies, 
That from his tomb a church may rise. 

3 But he forever lives, 
Nor for himself alone ; 
Each saint new life derives 
From him the living stone ; 

His influence spreads through every soul, 
And in one house unites the whole. 

4 To him with joy we move, 
In him cemented stand, 
The living temple grows, 
And owns the founder's hand : 

That structure, Lord ' still higher raise, 
Louder to sound its builder's praise. 

5 Descend and shed abroad 
The tokens of thy grace ; 
And with more radiant beams 
Let glory fill the place ; 

Our joyful souls shall prostrate fall, 
And own our God is ail in all. 

128. 7s. m. 

The Invitations of the Gospel. Mat. xi. 23. 

Come ! said Jesus' sacred voice, 
Come, and make my paths your choice : 
I will guide you to your home ; 
Weary pilgrim, hither come ! 

Thou, who houseless, sole, forlorn, 
Long hast borne the proud world's scorn, 
Long hast roamed the barren waste, 
Weary pilgrim, hither haste ! 



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3 Ye, who tost on beds of pain, 
Seek for ease, but seek in vain: 

Ye, whose swollen and sleepless eyes, 
Watch to see the morning rise : 

4 Ye, by fiercer anguish torn, 

Guilt, in strong remorse, who mourn; 
Here repose your heavy care : 
Conscience wounded, who can bear? 

5 Sinner, come ! for here is found 
Balm that flows for every wound ; 
Peace that ever shall endure ; 
Rest eternal, sacred, sure. 

129. c. m. 

The Highway to Zion. Isa. xxxv. 8, 9, Id. 

1 Sing, ye redeemed of the Lord, 

Your great deliverer sing ; 
Pilgrims, for Zion's city bound, 
Be joyful in your King. 

2 See the fair way his hand hath raised, 

How holy, and how plain ! 
Nor shall the simplest traveller err, 
Nor ask the track in vain. 

Z No ravening lion shall destroy, 
Nor lurking serpent wound ; 
Pleasure and safety, peace and praise, 
Through all the path are found. 

4 A hand divine shall lead you on 
Along the blissful road, 
Till on the sacred mount you see 
The glory cf your God. 



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5 There, garlands of immortal joy 

Shall bloom on every head ; 
While sorrow, sighing, and distress, 
Like shadows all are fled. 

6 Jesus, your leader 's gone before, 

Pursue his footsteps still ; 
And let the prospect cheer your eye, 
While laboring up the hill. 

130. 7s. m. 

Jesus risen, and Death vanquished. 

1 Angel, roll the stone away ! 
Death, yield up thy mighty prey ! 
See, he rises from the tomb, 

Glowing in immortal bloom ! Hallelujah! 

2 Shout, ye saints, in rapturous song ; 
Let the notes be sweet and strong ; 
Hail the son of God, this morn 
From his sepulchre new-born ! 

3 Christians, dry your flowing tears ; 
Chase those unbelieving fears ; 
Look on his deserted grave ; 
Doubt no more his power to save. 

4 Powers of heaven, celestial choirs, 
Sing, and sweep your sounding lyres I 
Sons of men, in joyful strain, 

Hail your mighty Saviour's reign ! 

5 Every note with wonder swell, 
And the Saviour's triumph tell : 
Where, O death, is now thy sting? 
Where thy terrors, vanquished king ? 



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131. L. M. 

Death and Resurrection of Christ. 

1 He dies, the friend of sinners dies ! 
Lo ! Salem's daughters weep around ; 
A solemn darkness veils the skies ; 

A sudden trembling shakes the ground : 

2 Here 's love and grief beyond degree ; 
The Lord of glory dies for men ; 

But lo ! what sudden joys we see, — 
Jesus, the dead, revives again. 

3 Break off your tears, ye saints ! and say 
How high your great deliverer reigns ; 
Sing how he rose to endless day, 

And led the tyrant death in chains : 

4 Say, " Live forever, wondrous King ! 
Born to redeem, and strong to save ! 
Then ask the monster, where 's thy sting 
And where 's thy victory, boasting- grave 

132. 7s. m. 

The Ascension and Exaltation of Jesus. 

1 Hail the day that sees him rise, 
Ravished from our wishful eyes ; 
Christ, a while to mortals given, 
Now ascends the highest heaven. 

2 There the pompous triumph waits, 
Lift your heads, eternal gates ! 
Wide unfold the radiant scene, 
Take the exalted Jesus in. 

3 Him the highest- heaven receives, 
Still he loves the earth he leaves ; 

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Though exalted to his throne, 
Still he calls mankind his own. 



4 See, he lifts his hands above, 
See, he shows the prints of love ; 
Hark ! his gracious lips bestow 
Blessings on his church below. 

5 Ever upward let us move, 
Wafted on the wings of love; 
There we shall with him remain. 
Partners of his endless reign. 

133. L. M. 

The Excellency and final Success of the Gospel. Ps. xix. 

1 The heavens declare thy glory, Lord ! 
In every star thy wisdom shines ; 

But when our eyes behold thy word, 
We read thy name in fairer lines. 

2 The rolling sun, the changing light, 
And nights, and days, thy power confess; 
But the blest volume thou hast writ, 
Reveals thy justice and thy grace. 

3 Sun, moon, aud stars, convey thy praise 
Round the whole earth and never stand : 
So when thy truth began its race, 

It touched and glanced on every land. 

4 Nor shall thy spreading gospel rest, 

Till through the world thy truth has run : 
Till Christ has all the nations blest 
That feel the influence of the sun. 

5 Father of lights! in glory rise, 

Bless the dark world with heavenly light; 






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Thy gospel makes the simple wise, 
Thy laws are pure, thy judgments right. 

6 Thy noblest wonders here we view, 
In souls renewed, and sins forgiven : 
Lord ! cleanse my sins, my soul renew, 
And make thy word my guide to heaven. 

134. L. M. 

Universal Prevalence and Power of the Gospel implored. 

1 Father adored in worlds above ! 
Thy glorious name be hallowed still ; 
Thy kingdom come with power and love, 
And earth, like heaven, obey thy will. 

2 The triumphs of thy truth display ; 
In every clime reign thou alone, 
Till all thy foes confess thy sway, 
And glory ends what grace begun. 

S Fountain of light ! all-perfect mind ! 
O let thine healing influence flow 
Through all the tribes of human kind, 
And new create thy world below. 

4 Widely diffuse the blessings round, 
Thy grace so richly scatters here, 
Till the wide earth's remotest bound 
Thy hand shall own, adore, and fear. 

135. L. M. 

The Kingdom of Christ. Ps. lxxii. 

1 To God let fervent prayers arise 
With every daily sacrifice, 



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The great Messiah's reign to spread, 
And with new honours crown his head. 

2 Soon may he rule where'er the sun 
Doth his successive journeys run ; 

His kingdom stretch from shore to shore. 
Till moons shall wax and wane no more. 

3 As gentle rain on parching ground, 
His gospel sheds its influence round ; 
Its grace on fainting souls distils, 
Like heavenly dew on thirsty hills. 

4 Blessings abound where'er he reigns ; 
The prisoner leaps to loose his chains ; 
The weary find eternal rest, 

And contrite hearts with peace are blest. 

5 Where he displays his healing power, 
The sting of death is known no more ; 
In him the tribes of Adam boast 
More blessings than their father lost. 

6 Great God ! may realms of every tongue 
Dwell on thy love with sweetest song ; 
And with united hearts proclaim, 

That grace and truth by Jesus came. 

136. 8 & 7s. M. 
The future Peace and Glory of the Church. Isa. lx. 15—20. 

1 Hear what God, the Lord, hath spoken : 
O my people, faint and few, 
Comfortless, afflicted, broken : 
Fair abodes I build for you : 
Themes of heartful tribulation 
Shall do more perplex your ways : 



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You shall name your walls, salvation, 
And your gates shall all be praise. 

2 There, like streams that feed the garden, 
Pleasures without end, shall flow ; 

For the Lord, your faith rewarding, 
All his bounty shall bestow : 
Still in undisturbed possession 
Peace and righteousness shall reign ; 
Never shall you feel oppression, 
Hear the voice of war again. 

3 Ye, no more your suns descending, 
Waning moons no more shall see ; 
But your griefs forever ending, 
Find eternal noon in me: 

God shall rise, and shining o'er you, 
Change to day the gloom of night ; 
He, the Lord, shall be your glory, 
God your everlasting light. 

137. s. m. 

Attraction of the Cross. John xii. 32. 

1 Behold th' amazing sight, 
The Saviour lifted high J 

Behold the Fathers chief delight 
Expire in agony ! 

2 For whom, for whom, my heart, 
Were all these sorrows borne ? 

Why did he feel that piercing smart, 
And meet that various scorn ? 



3 For love of us he bled 



And all in torture died ; 



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Twas love that bowed his fainting head, 
And oped his gushing side. 

4 In sympathy of love 

Let all the earth combine ; 
And, drawn by cords so gentle, prove 
The energy divine. 

5 In him our hearts unite, 
Nor share his grief alone, 

But from his cross pursue their flight 
To his triumphant throne. 

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Prayer for the Spread of the Gospel. 

Great God of grace ! arise and shine, 
With beams of heavenly light : 

From this dark world of sin dispel 
The long and gloomy night. 

No more may senseless idols share 

The honours due to thee : 
May every nation know thy name, 

And thy salvation see. 

No more may persecution dare 

To lift her iron rod ; 
No longer shed the blood of saints, 

And plead a zeal for God. 

With its own pure and native light, 

Lord ! may the gospel shine : 
And error fly like noxious mists 

Before this light divine. 



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5 While heaven born truth her charms reveals, 
May love each breast inspire ; 
Nor one base passion ever mix, 
To quench this sacred fire. 



139. L. M. 

Example of the Saviour. 
And is the gospel peace and love ? 
So let our conversation be ; 
The serpent blended with the dove, 
Wisdom and meek simplicity. 

Whene'er the angry passions rise, 

And tempt our thoughts or tongues to strife, 

On Jesus let us fix our eyes, 

Bright pattern of the christian life ! 

O how benevolent and kind ! 
How mild ! how ready to forgive ! 
Be this the temper of our mind, 
And his the rules by w r hich we live. 

To do his heavenly father's will 
Was his employment and delight: 
Humanity and holy zeal 
Shone through his life divinely bright! 

Dispensing good where'er he came, 
The labours of his life were love : 
If then we love our saviour's name, 
Let his divine example move. 



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Example of Christ. 

1 Behold where in a mortal form, 

Appears each grace divine; 
The virtues, all in Jesus met, 
With mildest radiance shine. 

2 To spread the rays of heavenly light, 

To give the mourner joy, 
To preach glad tidings to the poor, 
Was his divine employ. 

3 Lowly in heart, to all his friends 

A friend and servant found, 
He washed their feet, he wiped their tears, 
And healed each bleeding wound. 

4 Midst keen reproach, and cruel scorn, 

Patient and meek he stood ; 
His foes, ungrateful, sought his life; 
He laboured for their good. 

5 To God he left his righteous cause, 

And still his task pursued ; 
While humble prayer and holy faith 
His fainting strength renewed. 

6 In the last hour of deep distress, 

He sought his father's throne, 
Breathed out his soul, and meekly said, 
"Thy will, not mine, be done \ n 

7 No longer now the man of griefs ; 

Of life and glory Lord ; 
He calls his brethren fellow-heirs, 
Their glory — his reward. 



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8 Be Christ our pattern and our guide ! 
His image may we bear ! 

may we tread his holy steps. 
His joy and glory share. 

141. L. M. 

Imitation of the Saviour. 

1 Father of him we own our Lord ! 

1 read my duty in his word ; 
But in his life the law appears 
Drawn out in living characters. 

2 Faithful his mission to fulfil ! 
Resigned to all his Father's will! 
His love and meekness, how divine ! 

I would transcribe and make them mine. 

3 Cold mountains and the midnight air, 
AVitnessed the fervour of his prayer ; 
The desert his temptations knew, 
His conflicts and his victories too. 

4 He is my pattern ; may I bear 
More of his gracious image here ! 
Then shall I find my humble name 
Among the followers of the Lamb. 

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The Example of Jesus and his faithful Servants. 

1 Give me the wings of faith, to rise 
Within the veil, and see 
The saints above, how great their joys. 
How bright their glories be ! 
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2 Once they were mourners here below ; 

Their eyes were dimmed with tears ; 
And hard they strove, as we would now, 
With sins, and doubts, and fears. 

3 And ask we, whence their victory came?— 

They with united breath 
Ascribe their triumph to his name. 
Who burst the bands of death. 

4 They marked the footsteps that he trod, 

His zeal inspired their breast ; 
And following their triumphant Lord, 
Possess the promised rest. 

5 Our glorious leader claims our praise 

For his own pattern given ; 
While the long cloud of witnesses 
Shows the same path to heaven. 

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The Excellence of the Scripture?. 

1 Father of mercies ! in thy word 

What endless glory shines ! 
Forever be thy name adored, 
For these celestial lines ! 

2 Here, may the wretched sons of want 

Exhaustless riches find ; 
Riches above what earth can grant. 
And lasting as the mind. 

3 Here, the fair tree of knowledge grows, 

And yields a free repast ; 
More precious fruits than nature knows. 
Invite the longing taste. 



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4 Here, springs of consolation rise, 

To cheer the fainting mind ; 

And thirsty souls receive supplies. 

And sweet refreshment find. 

5 O may thy gospel ever be 

Our study and delight ; 
And still new beauties may we see, 
And still increasing light ! 

144. c. m. 

Instruction and Consolation from the Scriptures. Ps. cxix. 

1 Lord ! we have made thy word our choice^ 

Our lasting heritage : 
There shall our noblest, powers rejoice, 
Our warmest thoughts engage. 

2 We'll read the histories of thy love, 

And keep thy laws in sight, 
While through the promises we rove, 
With ever fresh delight. 

3 Our numerous griefs are here redrest 

And all onr wants supplied ; 
Nought we can ask to make us blest ; 
Is in this book denied. 

4 This is the field where hidden lies 

The pearl of price unknown : 

Then blest is he who wisely tries 

To make that pearl his own. 

This is the judge that ends the stnfe, 
Where wit and reason fail ; 
Our guide to everlasting life ; 
Through all this gloomy vale. 



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Oh ! may its counsels, mighty God ! 

Our roving feet command ; 
Nor we forsake the happy road, 

That leads to thy right hand. 

145- s m. 

The Glory and Efficacy of God's Word. 

1 What glory gilds thy word ! 
Majestic like the sun, 

It gives a light to every age, 
It gives, but borrows none. 

2 The hand that gave it, still 
Supplies its light and heat ; 

His truths upon the nations rise, 
They rise, but never set. 

3 And blest thy creature is, 
When first with single eye 

He views the lustre of thy word, 
The day-spring from on high. 

4 Through clouds that veil the skies, 
And frown on earthly things, 

The sun of righteousness breaks forth, 
With healing in his wings. 

5 Struck by that light, his heart 
A barren soil no more, 

SenJs shoots of righteousness abroad, 
Where follies sprung before. 

6 The soul so dreary once, 
Once misery's dark domain, 

Feels happiness unknown before, 
And owns a heavenly reign. 



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Meekness and Candour in investigating divine Truth. 

1 Imposture shrinks from light, 
And dreads the curious eye : 

But sicred truths the test invite, 
They bid us search and try. 

2 O may we still maintain 
A meek, inquiring mind: 

Assured we shall not search in vain, 
But hidden treasures find. 

3 With understanding blest, 
Created to be free, 

Our frith on man we dare not rest. 
Subject to none but thee. 

4 Lord, give the light we need ; 
With soundest knowledge fill ; 

From noxious error guard our creed, 
From prejudice our will. 

5 The truth thou shah impart, 
May we with firmness own; 

Abhorring each evasive art, 
And fearing, thee alone. 

147. 61. L. M. 
Spiritual Light and Knowledge implored. Ps. cxix. 

1 While through life's pilgrimage I stray, 
O let thy light attend my way, 
Thy precepts fixed before my view, 
Let me with steadfast aim pursue, 

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Nor error's cloud, nor arts of sin, 
My soul from truth and virtue win. 

2 Thou source of light to all below ! 
Teach me thy word aright to know, 
That raised above the world, my mind 
In thee its highest good may find, 
And with celestial wisdom filled, 

A pure, a full obedience yield. 

3 Thus to my life's remotest day, 

Teach me, O teach me, Lord ! thy way ; 
Divert from vanity mine eye, 
To me thy quickening strength supply ; 
And with thy promised succour, cheer 
A heart devoted to thy fear. 

148. c. m. 

Value of the Knowledge of God. Hos. vi. 3. 

1 Shine forth, Eternal Source of light ! 

Make thy perfections known ; 
Fill our enlarged adoring sight 
With lustre all thy own. 

2 To know the author of our frame, 

Is our sublimest skill : 
True science is to learn his name, 
True life to do his will. 

3 All wisdom else, compared with this. 

Is little worth and vain ; 
Who wants it, never tastes of bliss, 
Though all beside he gain. 



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4 For this let us unceasing pray ; 
This all our powers pursue, 
Till visions of eternal day 
Fix and complete the view. 



149. L. M. 

Faith in the Invisible God. Heb. xi. 27. 

1 Eternal and Almighty king! 

Thy peerless splendors none can bear 
But darkness veils seraphic eyes, 
When God with all his glory 's there. 

2 Yet faith can pierce the awful gloom, 
The great Invisible can see ; 

And with its tremblings mingle joy, 
In fixed regards, great God ! to thee. 

3 Then every tempting form of sin, 
Awed by thy presence, disappears ; 
And all the glowing raptured soul 
The likeness it contemplates, wears. 

4 O ever conscious to my heart ! 
Witness to its supreme desire : 
Behold it presseth on to thee, 

For it hath caught the heavenly fire. 

5 This one petition would it urge — 
To bear thee ever in its sight ; 

In life, in death, in worlds unknown, 
Its only portion and delight ! 



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150. L. M. 

Imitation of God. 

Great God ! thy peerless excellence 
Let all created natures own : 
Deep on our minds impress the sense 
Of glories which are thine alone. 

Let these our admiration raise, 

And fill us with religious awe : 

Tune all our hearts and tongues to praise, 

And bend us to thy holy law. 

But, where we may resemble thee, 
And in thy godlike nature share, 
Thine humble followers let us be, 
And somewhat of thy likeness bear. 

Pure may we be, averse from sin, 
Just, holy, merciful, and true ; 
And let thine image, formed within, 
Shine out in all we speak and do. 

151. s. M. 

God's Parental Character. 

My Father ! — cheering name ! 
O may I call thee mine ? 
Give me with humble hope to claim 
A portion so divine. 

This can my fears control, 
And bid my sorrows fly ; 
What real harm can reach my soul 
Beneath my father's eye ? 



Part III.] DEVOUT AFFECTIONS. 

3 Whate'er thy will denies, 
I calmly would resign ; 

For thou art just, and good, and wise 

bend my will to thine ! 

4 Whate'er thy will ordains, 

, O give me strength to bear ; 
Still let me know a father reigns, 
And trust a father's care. 

5 If anguish rend this frame, 
And life almost depart ; 

Is not thy mercy still the same 
To cheer my drooping heart ? 

6 Thy ways are little known 
To my weak, erring sight ; 

Yet shall my soul, believing, own 
That all thy ways are right. 

7 My Father ! — blissful name ! 
Above expression dear ! 

If thou accept my humble claim, 

1 bid adieu to fear. 

152. L. M. 

Devout Aspirations. 

1 Our God, as merciful as just, 
Kindly remembers man is dust ; 
His ear is open to our cries, 

His grace will meet our lifted eyes. 

2 He reads the language of a tear, 
Listens to sighs from hearts sincere; 
He marks the dawn of virtuous aim, 
And fans the smoking flax to flame. 



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S Set us from earthly bondage free, 
Still every wish that strays from thee ; 
Bid, Lord, our vain disquiets cease, 
And point our path to endless peace. 

4 If in the vale of tears we stray, 

Where wounding thorns perplex our way, 
Still let our souls thy goodness see, 
And with strong faith lay hold on thee. 

5 With joy, my soul, thy lot receive, 
Resigned alike to die or live ; 
Kissing the sceptre or the rod, 
See God in all, and all in God. 

6 With thee in solitudes I walk, 
With thee in crowded cities talk, 
In every creature own thy power, 
In each event thy will adore. 

7 Thy hopes shall animate my soul, 
Thy precepts guide, thy fear control ; 
Within the temple of thine arms 

I'll rest secure from all alarms. 

8 Thus when the closing hour draws nigh, 
And earth recedes before mine eye, 
From cares and gloomy terrors free, 

I feel omnipotent in thee. 

153. c. m. 

The Divine Blessing needful to Success in Life. Ps. xc. 17. 

1 Shine on our souls, Eternal God! 
With rays of mercy shine : 
O let thy favour crown our days, 
And their whole course be thine. 



Part III.] DEVOUT AFFECTIONS. 

2 Did we not raise our hands to thee, 

Our hands might toil in vain : 
Small joy success itself could give. 
If thou thy love restrain. 

3 J Tis ours the furrows to prepare, 

And sow the precious grain ; 
'Tis thine to give the sun and air, 
And to command the rain. 

4 With thee let every week begin, 

With thee each day be spent, 
For thee each fleeting hour improved, 
Since each by thee is lent. 

5 Thus cheer us thro' this toilsome road, 

Till all our labours cease ; 
And thus prepare our weary souls 
For everlasting peace. 

154. c. m. 

Living habitually in the Fear of God. Prov. xxiii. 17. 

1 O blest are they who, born from heaven, 

While yet they sojourn here, 
Each day of. life with God begin, 
And spend it in his fir jr. 

2 'Midst hourly cares, may we present 

Our offerings to thy throne ; 
And while the world our hands employs, 
Our hearts be thine alone. 

3 As sanctified to noblest ends, 

Be each refreshment sought ; 
And by each various providence 
Some wise instruction brought. 



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4 When to laborious duties called, 

Or by temptations tried, 
We'll seek the shelter of thy wings, 
And in thy strength confide. 

5 As different scenes of life arise, 

Our grateful hearts would be 
With thee amidst the social band, 
In solitude with thee. 

6 In solid, pure delights like these, 

Let all our days be past ; 
Nor shall we then impatient wish. 
Nor shall we fear the last. 

155. L. M. 

The Fear of God. 

1 Great Author of all nature's frame ! 
Holy and reverend is thy name ; 
Thou Lord of life and Lord of death ! 
Worlds rise and vanish at thy breath. 

2 But blest are they, O gracious Lord ! 
Who fear thy name and keep thy word ; 
Thy wisdom guides, thy power defends 
Their life, till life its journey ends. 

3 O that my soul with awful sense 
Of thy transcendant exellence, 
May close the day, the day begin, 
Watchful against each darling sin ! 

4 Never, O never from my heart, 
May this great principle depart, 
But act with unabating power 
AVithin me, to my latest hour ! 



Part III.] DEVOUT AFFECTIONS. 

156. L. M. 

Faith and Hope in the Divine Goodness. 

1 Lord ! while my thoughts with wonder trace 
Thy favours past through all my days, 

My thankful heart adores thy grace ; 
I trust that goodness which I praise. 

2 Still from the same eternal spring 
Thy various constant bounties flow ; 
Beneath the shelter of thy wing, 

1 view serene the shades of woe. 

3 I see no terrors in thy name, 
But in my God a father find : 

The voice that shakes all nature's frame, 
Speaks comfort to the pious mind. 

4 E'en death's tremendous vale appears, 
No more in gloomy terrors drest : 
Thy voice, O God ! forbids my fears, 
While on thy gracious hand I rest. 

5 Through the dark scenes of mortal care. 
To humble faith's enraptured eye, 

The distant prospect opens fair 
Of radiant mansions in the sky. 

157. c. m. 

The Ways of the Righteous known to God. Ps. xxxvii. IS. 

1 To thee, O God ! my days are known ; 
My soul enjoys the thought; 
My actions all before thee lie, 
Nor are my wants forgot. 
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2 Each secret wish devotion breathes, 

Is vocal to thine ear : 
And all my walks of daily life 
Before thine eye appear. 

3 The vacant hour, the active scene, 

Thy mercy will approve ; 
And every pang of sympathy, 
And every care of love. 

4 Each golden hour of beaming light 

Is gilded by thy rays ; 
And dark affliction's midnight gloom 
A present God surveys. 

5 Full in thy view through life I pass, 

And in thy view I die ! 
And, when all mortal bonds shall break, 
May I still find thee nigh ! 

158. L. M. 

Piety sanctifying the Relations and Pleas'ires of Life. 

1 Enough of life's vain scene I've trod, 
Sweet is this interval of rest : 

With cheerful heart I meet my God, 
His presence makes me truly blest. 

2 Father and friend ! those ties how dear, 
How soothing to the human soul ! 
They arm with strength in every fear, 
And all life's varied ills control. 

S Pleasant is life, and sweet the light 
That pours from the bright orb of day. 
Revealing to our raptured sight, 
The world in all its rich display. 



Part III.] DEVOUT AFFECTIONS. 

4 Pleasant is life, and sweet its ties, 
The touching charities of man : 
Friend, fellow, child, and parent rise, 
Endearing life's progressive plan. 

5 But light and life would soon be vile, 
And all their dearest pleasures pall, 

Nor sun would shine, nor life would smile, 
Without thy presence gladdening all. 

159. c. m. 

Habitual Devotion. 

1 While thee I seek, protecting Power I 

Be my vain wishes stilled ; 

And may this consecrated hour 

With better hopes be fillsd. 

2 Thy love the powers of thought bestowed ; 

To thee my thoughts would soar ; 
Thy mercy o'er my life has flowed : — 
That mercy I adore ! 

3 In each event of life, how clear 

Thy ruling hand I see ! 
Each blessing to my soul more dear, 
Because conferred by thee. 

4 In every joy that crowns my days, 

In every pain I bear, 
My heart shall find delight in praise, 
Or seek relief in prayer. 

5 When gladness wings my favoured hour, 

Thy love my thoughts shall fill : 
Resigned, when storms of sorrow lower, 
Y ■ ooul shall meet thy will. 



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My lifted eye, without a tear, 

The gathering storm shall see : 
My steadfast heart shall know no fear : — 
That heart shall rest on thee ! 

160. c. m. 

God our Portion here and hereafter. Ps. lxxiii. 23-28. 

1 God, my supporter and my hope, 

My help forever near ! 
Thine arm of mercy holds me up, 
And saves me from despair. 

2 Thy counsels, Lord, shall guide my feet 

Through this dark wilderness ; 
Thy hand conduct me near thy seat 
To dwell before thy face. 

3 No blessing equal to thy love, 

I through creation see ; 
In earth beneath, in heaven above, 
Whom have I, Lord, but thee. 

4 What if the springs of life were broke, 

And flesh and heart should faint ? 
God is my soul's eternal rock, 
The strength of every saint. 

5 Behold the sinners, that remove 

Far from thy presence, die ; 
Not all the vanities they love, 
Can peace or hope supply. 

6 But to draw near to thee, my God ! 

Shall be my sweet employ : 
My tongue shall sound thy works abroad, 
And tell the world my joy. 



Part III.] DEVOUT AFFECTIONS. 

161. L. M. 

God the Desire and Happiness of his People. 
Ps. lxxiii. 25, 26. 

1 My God ! whose all-pervading eye, 
Sees earth beneath and heaven above ; 
O say, if here, or there, thou seest 

An equal object of my love. 

2 Not the gay scenes where mortal men 
Pursue their bliss and find their woe, 
Detain my rising heart, which springs 
The nobler joys of heaven to view. 

3 Not all the fairest sons of light, 

That lead the hosts around thy throne, 
Can bound its flight : it presseth on 
And seeks its rest in God alone. 

4 Fixed near the immortal source of bliss, 
Dauntless, and joyous, it surve} r s 

Each form of horror and distress, 
That all its deadliest foes can raise. 

o This feeble flesh shall faint and die, 
This heart renew its pulse no more ; 
E'en now it views the moment nigh, 
When life's last movements all are o'er. 

6 But come, thou vanquished King of dread ! 
With thy own hand thy power destroy ; 
'Tis thine to bear me to my God ? 
My portion and eternal joy ! 

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162. c. m. 

Trust in God through all the Changes of Life. 

1 Father divine ! before thy view, 

All worlds, all creatures lie ; 
No distance can elude thy search, 
No action 'scape thine eye. 

2 From thee our vital breath we drew ; 

Our childhood was thy care ; 
And vigorous youth and feeble age 
Thy kind protection share. 

3 Whate'er we do, where'er we turn, 

Thy ceaseless bounty flows ; 
Oppressed with woe, when nature faints, 
Thine arm is our repose. 

4 To thee we look, thou Power Supreme, 

O still our wants supply ! 
Safe in thy presence may we live, 
And in thy favour die. 

163. L. M. 

Seeking God. Ps. lxiii. 

1 My God, permit my tongue 

This joy to call thee mine : 
And let my earnest cries prevail 
To taste thy love divine. 

2 For life without thy love 

No relish can afford : 
No joy can be compared with this, 
To serve and please thee, Lord. 



Part III.] DEVOUT AFFECTIONS. 

3 In wakeful hours of night 

I call my God to mind ; 
I think how wise thy counsels are. 
And all thy dealings kind. 

4 Since thou hast been my help, 

To thee my spirit flies ; 
And on thy watchful providence 
My cheerful hope relies. 

5 The shadow of thy wings 

My soul in safety keeps ; 
t follow where my father leads, 
And he supports my steps. 

164. p. m. 

God seen in All. 

1 My God ! all nature owns thy sway ; 
Thou giv'st the night and thou the da}' : 
When all thy loved creation wakes, 
When morning rich in lustre, breaks, 
And bathes in dew the opening flower. 
To thee we owe her fragrant hour ; 
And when she pours her choral song, 
Her melodies to thee belong. 

Or when in paler tints arrayed, 
The evening slowly spreads her shade ; 
That soothing shade, that grateful gloom. 
Can more than day's enlivening bloom, 
Still every fond and vain desire, 
And calmer, purer thoughts inspire ; 
From earth the pensive spirit free, 
And lead the softened heart to thee. 



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3 In every scene thy hands have dressed, 
In every form by thee impressed, 
Upon the mountain's awful head, 

Or where the sheltering woods are spread ; 
In every note that swells the gale, 
Or tuneful stream that cheers the vale, 
The cavern's depth, or echoing grove, — 
A voice is heard of praise and love. 

4 As o'er thy work the seasons roll, 

And soothe, with change of bliss, the soul, 
O never may their smiling train 
Pass o'er the human sense in vain ! 
But oft as on their charms we gaze, 
Attune the wandering soul to praise ; 
And be the joys that most we prize, 
Those joys that from thy favour rise ! 

165. c. m. 

Trust in God in Prosperity and Adversity. 

1 The Lord ! how tender is his love ! 

His justice, how august ! 
Hence all her fears my soul derives. 
There anchors all her trust. 

2 He showers the manna from above. 

To feed the barren waste ! 
Or points with death the fiery hail, 
And famine waits the blast. 

3 Crowns, realms, and worlds, his wrath in- 

censed, 
Are dust beneath his tread : 
He blights the fair, unplumes the proud, 
And shakes the learned head. 



Part III.] DEVOUT AFFECTIONS. 

4 He bids distress forget to groan, 

The sick from anguish cease ; 
In dungeons spreads his heahng wing, 
And softly whispers peace. 

5 Thy vengeance rides the rushing wind, 

Or tips the bolt with flame : 
Thy goodness breathes in every breeze, 
And warms in every beam. 

6 For me, O Lord ! whatever lot 

The hours commissioned bring ; 
Do all my withering blessings die, 
Or fairer clusters spring ; 

7 O ! grant that still with grateful heart 

My years resigned may run ; 
'Tis thine to give or to resume, 
And may thy will be done. 

166. c. m. 

Submission under afflictive Providences. Job i. 21. 

1 Peace, 'tis the Lord Jehovah's hand 

Which blasts our joys in death, 
Changes the visage once so dear, 
And gathers back the breath. 

2 "Tis he, the potentate supreme 

Of all the worlds above, 
Whose steady counsels wisely rule, 
Nor from their purpose move. 

3 The dear delights we here enjoy, 

And call our own in vain, 
Are but short favours lent us now 
To be repaid again. 



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4 The God who lifts our comforts high, 

Or sinks them to the grave, 
He gives, and, blessed be his name, 
He takes but what he gave. 

5 Peace then, our restless passions, peace : 

Let each rebellious sigh 

Be silent at his sovereign will, 

And every murmur die. 

6 If smiling mercy crown our lives, 

Its praises shall be spread ; 
Nor will we call unjust, the hand 
That strikes our comforts dead. 

167. L. M. 

" God is Love." 

1 When darkness long has veiled my mind, 
And smiling day once more appears ; 
Then, my Creator ! then I find 

The folly of my doubts and fears. 

2 Strait I upbraid my wandering hearty 
And blush that I should ever be 
Thus prone to act so base a part, 

Or harbour one hard thought of thee. 

3 O ! let me then at length be taught 
What I am still so slow to learn — 
That God is love, and changes not, 
Noi knows the shadow of a turn. 

4 Sweet truth, and easy to repeat ! 
But when my faith is sharply tried, 
I find myself a learner yet, 
Unskilful, weak, and apt to slide. 



Part III.] DEVOUT AFFECTIONS. 

5 But, O my God ! one look from thee 
Subdues the disobedient will, 
Drives doubt and discontent away, 
And thy rebellous child is still. 

168. c. m. 

Submission to the Divine Disposal. 

1 O Lord ! my best desires fulfil, 

And help me to resign 
Life, health, and comfort to thy will, 
And make thy pleasure mine. 

2 Why should I shrink at thy command, 

Whose love forbids my fears ; 
Or tremble at thy gracious hand, 
That wipes away my tears ? 

3 No ! let me rather freely yield 

What most I prize, to thee ; 

Who never hast a good withheld, 

Nor wilt withhold from me. 

4 Wisdom and mercy guide my way ; 

Shall I resist them both ? 
Short-sighted creature of a day, 
And crushed before the moth ! 

5 But ah ! my heart within me cries, 

Still bind me to thy sway ; 
Else the next cloud that veils the skits 
Drives all these thoughts away. 



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169. c. m. 

Serenity and Trust implored. Ps. xci. 

1 When present sufferings pain our hearts, 

Or future terrors rise, 
And light and hope almost depart 
From these dejected eyes : 

2 Thy powerful word supports our hopes, 

Rich cordial of the mind ! 
And bears our fainting spirits up, 
And bids us wait resigned. 

3 And oh ! whate'er of earthly bliss 

Thy providence denies, 
Accepted at thy throne of grace, 
Let this petition rise : 

4 Give us a calm, a thankful heart, 

From every murmur free : 
The blessings of thy grace impart, 
And make us live to thee. 

5 Let the blest hope that we are thine, 

Our path of life attend ; 
Thy presence through our journey shine, 
And crown our journey's end. 

170. L. M. 

Trust in the divine Love, in every condition. 
1 Father ! I thank thee ; may no thought 
E'er deem thy chastisements severe ; 
But may this heart by sorrow taught, 
Calm each wild wish, each idle fear. 



Part III.] DEVOUT AFFECTIONS. 

2 Thy mercy bids all nature bloom, 
Thy sun shines bright, and man is gay; 
Thine equal mercy spreads the gloom, 
That darkens o'er his little day. 

3 Full many a throb of grief and pain 

Is earth's pale wanderer doomed to know, 
Yet not one prayer is breathed in vain, 
Or does one tear unheeded flow. 

4 Thy various messengers employ; 
Thy purposes of love fulfil ; 

And 'mid the wreck of human joy, 
Let kneeling faith adore thy will. 

171. C. M. 

Acquiescence in the Will of God. 

1 Parent of good ! we rest on thee ; 

Thine ever watchful eye 

Alone our real wants can see, 

Thy hand alone supply. 

2 Oh ! let thy love within us dwell, 

Thy fear our footsteps guide ; 
That love shall vainer loves expel, 
That fear, all fears beside. 

3 And since by passion's force subdued, 

Too oft with stubborn will, 

We blindly shun the latent good, 

And grasp the specious ill : 

4 Not what we wish, but what we want, 

Let mercy still supply : 
The good, unasked, O Father ! grant, 
The ill, though asked, deny. 
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172. c. m. 

The aged Christian's Prayer. Ps. lxxi. 

O Thou, my earliest, latest hope ; 

I live upon thy truth : 
Thy hands have held my childhood up, 

And strengthened all my youth. 

My frame was fashioned by thy power, 

And shows thy skill divine ; 
And from my mothers painful hour, 

I've been entirely thine. 

Still has my life new wonders seen, 

In each revolving } r ear : 
Behold, my days that yet remain, 

I trust them to thy care. 

Cast me not off when strength declines,, 

When hoary hairs arise ; 
And round me let thy glory shine, 

Whene'er thy servant dies. 

Then in the history of my age, 

When men review my days, 
They'll read thy love in every page, 

In every line thy praise. 

173. c. m. 

Old Age anticipated. 

When in the vale of lengthened years 

My feeble feet shall tread 
And I survey the various scenes 

Through which I have been led, 



Part III'] DEVOUT AFFECTIONS. 

2 How many mercies will my lite 

Before my view unfold ! 
What countless dangers will be past, 
What" tales of sorrow told ! 

3 But yet my soul ! if thou canst say 

I've seen my God in all ; 
In every blessing owned his hand, 
In every loss his call ; 

4 If piety has marked my steps, 

And love my actions formed, 
And purity possesed my heart, 
And truth my lips adorned ; 

5 If I Ve grown old in serving him, 

My father and my God ; 
I need not fear the closing scene, 
Nor dread the appointed road. 

6 This scene will all my labours end ; 

This road conduct on high ; 
With comfort 1 11 review the past, 
And triumph though I die. 

174. c. m. 

Early piety. 

1 Author of life ! with reason's dawn 

Let me thy favour gain ; 
And when its light in shade declines, 
I shall not trust in vain. 

2 In this soft season of my life, 

Mid nature's smiling bloom, 
Ere age avrive, and trembling wait 
Tts summons to the tomb, 



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3 Thee let me in remembrance bear ; 

For thee each power employ ! 
And make that God from whom I came, 
My early trust and joy. 

4 Through all youth's slippery paths, be thou 

My counsellor and friend ; 
Since if my years begin with thee, 
With thee my years shall end. 

5 Thou wilt not cast me off, when dark 

And evil days descend ; 
Nor leave me sinking in despair, 
At life's approaching end. 

6 I know the power on which I trust ;.. 

The arm on which 1 lean ; 
He will my father ever be,. 
Who has my father been. 



175. L. M. 

The vanity of religious Services without true Virtue. 

1 The uplifted eye and bended knee 
Are but vain homage, Lord, to thee, 
In vain our lips thy praise prolong, 
The heart a stranger to the song. 

2 Can rites, and forms, and flaming zeaL, 
The breaches of thy precepts heal ? 
Or fasts and penance reconcile 

Thy justice, and obtain thy smile ? 

3 Not he whose baseless hope relies 
On modes which erring men devise ; 



Part TIL] social virtues. 

Who merely calls the Saviour, Lord, 
But heeds not to perform his word ; 

4 Not he shall tread the courts above, 
The bright abodes of joy and love; 
But he whose prompt obedience shows, 
His wish to practise what he knows. 

5 One cup of healing oil and wine. 
One offering laid on mercy's shrine, 

Is thrice more grateful, Lord ! to thee, 
Than lifted eye or bended knee. 

176. c. m. 

Justice and Equity* 

1 Come, let us search our ways and try ; 

Have they been just and right ? 
Is the great rule of equity 
Our practice and delight ? 

2 What we would have our neighbours do, 

Have we still done the same ? 
From others ne'er withheld the due, 
Which we from others claim ? 

3 Have we ne'er envied other's good, 

Ne'er envied others' praise ? 

In no man's path malignant stood, 

Nor used detraction's ways ? 

4 Have we not, deaf to his request, 

Turned from another's woe ? 
The scorn which wrings the sufferer's breast, 
Have we abhorred to show ? 

5 Then may we raise our modest prayer 

To God, the just and kind; 
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May humbly cast on him our care, 
And hope his grace to find. 

6 Religion's path they never trod, 
Who equity contemn : 
Nor ever are they just to God, 
Who prove unjust to men. 

177. 7s. m. 

Love to God and Man. 

1 Father of our feeble race, 
Wise, beneficent, and kind, 
Spread o'er nature's ample face, 
Flows thy goodness unconfined : 
Musing in the silent grove, 

Or the busy walks of men, 

Still we trace thy wondrous love, 

Claiming large returns again. 

2 Lord, what offering shall be bring, 
At thine altars when we bow ? 
Hearts, the pure unsullied spring, 
Whence the kind affections How ; 
Soft compassion's feeling soul, 
By the melting eye expressed ; 
Sympathy, at whose control, 
Sorrow leaves the wounded breast 

3 Willing hands to lead the blind, 
Bind the wounded, feed the poor ; 
Love, embracing all our kind, 
Charity, with liberal store : 
Teach us, O thou heavenly king, 
Thus to show our grateful mind, 
Thus the accepted offering bring. 
Love to thee, and all mankind. 



Part III.] SOCIAL VIRTUES. 

178. c. m. 

The Law of Love. Luke x. 30-37. 

1 Far from thy servants, God of grace, 

The unfeeling heart remove, 
And form in our obedient souls 
The image of thy love. 

2 O may our sympathizing breasts 

The generous pleasure know, 
Kindly to share in others* joy, 
And weep for others' woe ! 

3 Where'er the helpless sons of grief 

In low distress are laid, 
Soft be our hearts their pains to feel, 
And swift our hands to aid. 

4 O be the law of love fulfilled, 

In every act and thought ; 
Each angry passion far removed, 
Each selfish view forgot. 

5 Be thou, my heart ! dilated wide 

With this kind social grace ; 
And, in one grasp of fervent love. 
All earth and heaven embrace. 

179. c. m. 

The Law of Sympathy. 

1 All nature feels attractive power, 

A strong embracing force ; 
The drops that sparkle in the shower, 
The planets in their course. 

2 Thus, in the universe of mind, 

Is felt the law of love $ 



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The charity, both strong and kind, 
For all that live and move. 

3 In this fine sympathetic chain, 

All creatures bear a part ; 
Their every pleasure, every pain 
Linked to the feeling heart. 

4 More perfect bond ! the christian plan 

Attaches soul to soul ; 
Our neighbour is the suffering man, 
Though at the furthest pole. 

j To earth below, from heaven above, 
The faith, in Christ professed, 
More clear reveals that God is love, 
And whom he loves is blest. 

180. C. M. 

Christian Love from the Example of Christ. 

1 Behold, where, breathing love divine, 
Our dying master stands ! 
His weeping followers gathering round, 
Receive his last commands. 

:2 From that mild teacher's parting lips 
What tender accents fell ! 
The gentle precept which he gave, 
Became its author well. 

3 Blest is the man, whose softening heart 
Feels all another's pain ; 
To whom the supplicating eye 
Was never raised in vaia: 



Part III.] SOCIAL VIRTUES. 

4 Whose breast expands with generous 

A stranger's woe to feel ; [warmth, 
And bleeds in pity o'er the wound, 
He wants the power to heal. 

5 He spreads his kind supporting arms 

To every child of grief : 
His secret bounty largely flows, 
And brings unasked relief. 

6 To gentle offices of love 

His feet are never slow : 
He views through mercy's melting eye, 
A brother in a foe. 

7 Peace from the bosom of his God, 

My peace to him I give ; 
And when he kneels before his throne, 
His trembling soul shall live. 

8 To him protection shall be shown, 

And mercy from above 
Descend on those who thus fulfil 
The perfect law of love. 

181. C. M. 

Love, the most excellent Grace. 1 Cor. xiii. 

1 Happy the heart where graces reign, 

Where love inspires the breast, 
Love is the brightest of the train, 
And strengthens ail the rest. 

2 Knowledge, alas ! 'tis all in vain, 

And all in vain our fear ; 
Our rebel sins will strive and reign, 
If love be absent there. 



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Revenge and hate, those fires of hell, 

She quenches with her tongue ; 

Hopes and believes and thinks no ill, 

Though she endures the wrong. 

4 She ne'er desires nor seeks to know 

The scandals of the time ; 
Nor looks with pride on those below, 
Nor envies those that climb. 

5 This is the grace that lives and sings, 

When faith and hope shall cease ; 
? Tis this shall strike our joyful strings 
In the sweet realms of bliss. 

182. L. M. 

The Properties of Christian Charity, 1 Cor. xiii. 

1 Let men of high conceit and zeal 
Their fervour and their faith proclaim : 
If charity be wanting still, 

The rest is but a sounding name. 

2 Knowledge is apt to bloat the mind, 
And zeal to set the world on fire : 
But charity is calm and kind, 

And gentle thoughts will still inspire. 

3 Patient and meek, she suffers long, 
And slowly her resentments rise : 
Soon she forgets the greatest wrong, 
And rage retires and malice dies. 

4 She envies none their better state, 

But makes her neighbour's bliss her own : 
Nor vaunts herself with mind elate, 
But still a modest mien puts on. 



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5 This is the grace that reigns on high, 
And brightly will forever burn, 
When hope shall in fruition die, 
And faith to sight triumphant turn. 

183. L. M. 

Love to all Mankind. 

1 O God, my father, and my king, 
Of all I have, or hope, the spring ! 
Send down thy spirit from above, 
And fill my heart with heavenly love. 

2 May I from every act abstain, 
That hurts or gives another pain : 
And bear a sympathizing part, 
When'er I meet a wounded heart. 

3 And let my neighbour's prosperous state 
A mutual joy in me create ; 

His virtuous triumph let me join ; 
His peace and happiness be mine. 

4 And tho' my neighbour's hate I prove, 
Still let me vanquish hate with love ; 
And every secret wish suppress, 
That would abridge his happiness. 

5 Let love through all my conduct shine, 
An image fair, though faint of thine ! 
Thus let me his disciple prove, 

Who came to manifest thy love. 

184. c. m. 

Prayer of the prosperous Man. 

1 Great God of grace ! accept my prayer 
If e'er thy love divine 



THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER. [Part III. 

Should prosper my assiduous care, 
And affluence be mine : 

2 May poverty dispel her fears, 

And seek my open door ; 
My pitying heart shall own her tears, 
And bid them flow no more. 

3 O bless me with an honest mind, 

Which spurns each selfish end : 
Humanely warm to all mankind, 
And faithful to my friend. 

4 With conscious truth and honour still, 

My actions may I guide ; 
And know no fear, but fear of ill, 
Nor scorn, but scorn of pride. 

5 Thee in remembrance may I bear, 

To thee my tribute raise ; 
Conclude each day with fervent prayer, 
And wake each morn with praise. 

6 Thus through my life may I approve 

The gratitude I owe ; 
And share at length the bliss above, 
I would dispense below. 

185. c. m. 

The virtuous Love of Country. 

1 Parent of all ! Omnipotent 

In heaven and earth below ! 
Through all creation's vast extent, 
Whose streams of goodness flow ; 

2 Teach me to know from whence I rose, 

And unto what designed ; 



Part III.] SOCIAL VIRTUES. 

Nor private aims may I propose, 
Since linked with human kind. 

3 But chief to hear my country's voice, 

May my best thoughts incline ; 
J Tis reason's law, and virtue's choice, 
J Tis nature's call, and thine. 

4 My heart from freedom's sacred cause 

May nothing e'er divide ; 
Nor pomp, nor wealth, nor vain applause 
Nor friendship false, misguide. 

5 To honour, and to virtue true, 

In all my country's weal, 
As I my public walk pursue, 
May God his favour deal ! 

186. L. M. 

Christian Zeal tempered by Charity. 

1 My God ! whose all-pervading eye 
Sees every passion in my soul ! 
When sunk too low, or raised too high. 
Teach me those passions to control. 

3 Temper the fervours of my frame ; 
Be charity their constant spring ; 
And O, let no unhallowed flame 
Pollute the offerings I bring. 

3 Let peace with piety unite 
To mend the bias of my will ; 
While hope and heaven-eyed faith excite, 
And wisdom regulates my zeal ; 



4 That wisdom which to meekness turns, 
des 
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Wisdom descending from above 



THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER. [Part TTI. 

And let my zeal, whene'er it burns, 
Be kindled by the fire of love* 

187. S. M. 

Christian Unity. 

1 Let party names no more 

The Christian world overspread ; 
Gentile and Jew, and bond and free. 
Are one in Christ their head. 

2 Among the saints on earth. 
Let mutual love be found ; 

Heirs of the same inheritance, 
With mutual blessings crowned. 

$ Envy and strife, be gone, 

And only kindness known, 
Where all one common father have, 

One common master own. 

4 Thus will the church below 

Resemble that above ; 
Where springs of purest pleasure rise. 

And every heart is love. 

188. L. M. 

Intolerance absurd and criminal. 

1 Absurd and vain attempt ! to bind 
With earthly bonds the free-born mind ; 
To force conviction, and reclaim 

The wandering, by destructive flame. 

2 Bold arrogance ! to snatch from heaven 
Dominion not to mortals given ; 

O'er conscience to usurp the throne, 
Accountable to God alone. 



Part III.] SOCIAL VIRTUES. 

3 Our masters gentle law of love 
Doth no such cruelties approve :" 
Mild as himself, his doctrine wields 
No arms but what persuasion yields^ 

4 By proofs divine, and reason strong. 
It draws the willing mind along ; 
And triumphs to his church acquires, 
By eloquence which heaven inspires. 

189. L. M. 

Candour. 

1 All-seeing God ! 'tis thine to know 
The springs whence wrong opinions flow $ 
To judge from principles within, 

When frailty errs, and when we sin. 

2 Who among men, great Lord of all! 
Thy servant to his bar shall call ? 
Judge him, for modes of faith, thy foe, 
And doom him to the realms of woe ? 

5 Who with another's eye can read ? 
Or worship by another's creed ? 
Trusting thy grace, we form our own, 
And bow to thy commands alone. 

4 If wrong, correct ; accept, if right ; 
While faithful, we improve our light,, 
Condemning none, but zealous still 
To learn and follow all thy will. 

5 When shall our happy eyes behold r 
Thy people fashioned in thy mould ; 

,And charity our lineage prove, 
Derived from thee, O God of love. 



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190. 61 C. M. 

Contentment. 

O let us with a grateful mind, 
Take what our Father, ever kind, 

So liberally bestows ! 
Yet if our earthly store be small, 
In thankfulness improve it all 

To him from whom it flows. 

To be resigned, when ills betide, 
Patient, when favours are denied, 

And pleased with favours given ; 
This, gracious God ! is wisdom's part ; 
This >s that incense of the heart, 

Whose fragrance reaches heaven. 

Thus thro' life's changing scenes we'll go. 
Its chequered paths of joy and woe, 

With cautious steps well tread ; 
Quit its vain scenes without a tear, 
Without a trouble or a fear, 

And mingle with the dead : 

While conscience, like a faithful friend, 
Shall through the gloomy vale attend, 

And cheer our dying breath ; 
Shall when all other comforts cease, 
Like a kind angel whisper peace, 

And smooth the bed of death. 



Part III.] TERSOXAL VIRTUE?- 

191. s. M. 

Worldly Anxiety reproved. Matt. vi. 34L 

1 Why do I thus perplex 
My life, a breath of air. 

With fears of distant ills, and Tex 
My heart with fruitless care ? 

2 Can thought and toil increase 
My days appointed sum ? 

Why waste I then my time, my peace r 
To hoard for days to come t 

3 Will he whose bounty gave 
My life, its food deny ? 

Who formed my nature prone to crave. 
Its cravings not supply ? 

4 They neither sow nor toil, 
The tribes that wing the air, 

Yet live on his paternal smile, 
Whose bounty all things share. 

5 Then let to-morrow's cares 
Until to-morrow stay : 

The trouble which to-day prepares, 
Suffices for to-day. 

6 To him, these low desires, 
This sordid gain I leave, 

Who to no higher good aspires, 
Than what this world can give. 

7 To nobler work applied, 
My soul shall upward climb ; 

And trust my father to provide 
The needful things of time. 
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192. L. M. 

Steadfastness and Watchfulness implored. 

1 O thou ! my Father and my friend, 
On whom I cast my constant care, 
On whom for all things I depend ! 
To thee I breathe my humble prayer. 

2 Endue me with a holy fear ; 
The secrets of my heart reveal ; 
Sin and its snares are always near, 
Thee may I always nearer feel. 

3 O that to thee my constant mind 
May with a steady flame aspire ; 
Pride in its earliest motions find, 
And check the rise of wrong desire I 

4 O that my watchful soul may fly 
The first perceived approach of sin ; 
Look up to thee when danger's nigh, 
And feel thy fear control within ! 

5 Search, gracious God ! my inmost heart ; 
From guilt and error set me free ; 

Thy light and truth and peace impart, 
\i;J guide me safe to heaven and thee. 

193. L. M. 

Patience. James i. 4. 

1 Patience, O 'tis a grace divine, 
Sent from the God of peace and love, 
That leans upon its father's arm, 
As through the wilds of life we rove. 






Part m.l FERSONAE XUVfUKS. 



2 By patience, we serenely bear 
The troubles of our mortal state. 
And wait contented our discharge. 
Nor think our glory comes too late. 

3 O for this grace to aid us on, 
And arm with fortitude the breast. 

Till, life's tumultuous V03 age o'er. 
We reach the shores of endless rest. 

4 Faith into vision shall resign.. 
Hope shaH in full fruition die, 
And patience in possession end, 

In the bright worlds of bliss on high. 

194. L. M, 

Meekness. 

1 Happy the meek ! whose gentle breast. 
Clear as the summer's evening ray. 
Calm as the regions of the blest,. 
Enjo3 T s on earth celestial day. 

2 Far hence is that tierce child of pride, 
Anger, bred up in hate and strife ; 
By whom ten thousand ills supplied. 
Mingle the cup of bitter life. 

3 His heart no broken friendships sting, 
No jars his peaceful tent invade ; 
Secure beneath tlv Almighty wing, 
And, foe to none., of none afraid. 

4 Spirit of grace all meek and mild ! 
Inspire our breasts, our souls possess ; 
Repel each passion rude and wild, 
And bless us as we aim to bless. 



THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER. [Part III. 

195. s. m. 

" Blessed are the Meek." Mat. v. 5. 

1 u Blest are the meek," lie said, 

Whose doctrine is divine ; 
The humble-minded earth possess, 
And bright in heaven will shine. 

2 While here on earth they stay, 

Calm peace with them shall dwell ; 
And cheerful hope and heavenly joy, 
Beyond what tongue can tell. 

3 The God of peace is theirs ; 

They own his gracious sway ; 
And yielding all their wills to him, 
His sovereign laws obey. 

4 No angry passions move, 

No envy fires the breast; 
The prospect of eternal peace 
Bids every trouble rest. 

5 O gracious Father ! grant 

That we this influence feel, 
That all we hope, or wish, may be 
Subjected to thy will. 

6 Thus Christ our Lord to own, 

Thus thee in truth obey, 
Ensures us peace and joy on earth, 
And leads to endless daw 






"Part III.] PERSONAL VIRTUES. 

196. L. M. 

Personal Virtues. 

1 Awake, my soul, shake oft' the dream-, 
And know thy real excellence ; 

Too long I've yielded to the stream, 
Borne down by appetite and sense. 

2 Awake, my thought, rouse every power^ 
Thy native dignity display : 

Let lust and passion reign no more, 
No longer own their lawless sway. 

3 Thy temper meek and humble be, 
Content and pleased with every state ; 
From dire revenge and envy free, 
And wild ambition to be great. 

4 Confine thy roving appetites : 

From this vain world withdraw thine eyes j 
And raise them to those pure delights, 
Which none can taste below the skies. 

5 On wings of faith to heaven ascend, 
By hope anticipate the feast ; 

With all thy might still upward tend, 
And leave to sensual minds the rest. 

197. l. »fv 

Humility". 

1 Wherefore should man, frail child of clay ? . 
Who, from the cradle to the shrcud, 
Lives but the insect of a day — 
O why should mortal man be proud ?. 



THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER. [Part III. 

2 His brightest visions just appear, 
Then vanish and no more are found ; 
The stateliest pile his pride can rear, 
A breath may level with the ground. 

3 By doubt perplexed, in error lost, 
With trembling step he seeks his way : 
How vain of wisdom's gift the boast ! 
Of reason's lamp, how faint the ray ! 

4 Follies and sins, a countless sum, 
Are crowded in life's little span : 
How ill, alas ! does pride become 
That erring, guilty creature, man ! 

5 God of my life ! Father divine ! 
Give me a weak and lowly mind : 
In modest worth, O let me shine, 
And peace in humble virtue find. 

193. L. M. 

Communing with our Hearts. Ps. iv. 4. 

1 Return, my roving heart, return, 

And chase these shadowy forms no more ; 
Seek out some solitude to mourn, 
And thy forsaken God implore. 

2 Wisdom and pleasure dwell at home ; 
Retired and silent seek them there ; 
This is the way to overcome, 

The way to break temptation's snare. 

3 And thou, my God ! whose piercing eye 
Distinct surveys each deep recess, 

In these abstracted hours draw nigh, 
And with thy presence fill the place. 



Part III.] PERSONAL VIRTUES. 

4 Through all the mazes of my heart, 
My search let heavenly wisdom guide j 
And still its radiant beams impart, 
Till all be searched and purified. 

5 Then, with the visits of thy love, 
Vouchsafe my inmost soul to cheer ; 
Till every grace shall join to prove, 
That God hath fixed his dwelling there. 

199. c. m. 

Religious Retirement. 

1 Far from the world, O Lord ! I flee, 

From strife and tumult far ; 
From scenes where sin is waging still, 
Its most successful war. 

2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, 

With prayer and praise agree ; 
And seem by thy sweet bounty made, 
For those who follow thee. 

3 There, if thy spirit touch the soul, 

And grace her mean abode ; 
O with what peace, and joy, and love. 
Does she commune with God ! 

4 There like the nightingale, she pours 

Her solitary lays ; 
Nor asks a witness of her song, 
Nor thirsts for human praise. 

5 Author and Guardian of my life, 

Sweet source of light divine ; 

And all harmonious names in one, 

My Father — thou art mine ! 



THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER. [Pal't III. 

6 What thanks I owe thee, and what love, 
A boundless, endless store, 
Shall echo through the realms above, 
When time shall be no more. 

200. L. M. 
Inward Purity and Tranquillity. 

1 O Gob ! to whose all-searching sight 
The darkness shineth as the light, 
Search, prove my heart ; it pants for thee ; 
O burst these bonds and set it free. 

2 Wash out its stains, refine its dross, 
Bind my affections to the cross ; 
Hallow each thought ; cleanse all within 
From the polluting power of sin. 

3 While through this darksome wild I stray, 
My strength proportion to my day ; 

Let joys and sorrows gently flow, 
Nor rise too high nor sink too low. 

4 My restless passions, Lord ! restrain, 
And in my soul unrivalled reign ; 
Thou with whatever loads oppressed. 
Centered in thee my soul shall rest. 

5 O when shall my still-wavering mind 
This sweetest self-possession find ! 
Fountain of joy ! I long to see 

In thee my peace, my heaven in thee. 



Part III.] PERSONAL VIRTUES. 

201. L. M. 

Retirement and Meditation. 

1 My God ! permit me not to be 
A stranger to myself and thee : 
Amid a thousand thoughts I rove, 
Forgetful of my highest love. 

2 Why should my passions mix with earth, 
And thus debase my heavenly birth ? 
Why should I cleave to things below, 
And let my God, my Saviour, go ? 

3 Call me away from flesh and sense ; 
Thy gracious word can draw me thence ; 
I would obey the voice divine, 

And all inferior joys resign. 

4 Be earth with all her scenes withdrawn .; 
Let noise and vanity be gone : 

In secret silence of the mind, 

My heaven, and there my God I find. 

202. l. m. 

A Conversation becoming the Gospel. Titus ii. 10 — 13. 

1 So let our lips and lives express 
The holy gospel we profess, 

So let our works and virtues shine, 
To prove the doctrine all divine. 

2 Thus shall we best proclaim abroad 
The honours of our Saviour God, 

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PENITENTIAL AFFECTIONS. [Part III. 

When the salvation reigns within, 
And grace subdues the power of sin. 

3 Our flesh and sense must be denied, 
Passion and envy, lust and pride, 

While justice, temperance, truth and love, 
Our inward piety approve. 

4 What though we drink of sorrows' cup ? — ■ 
Religion bears our spirits up, 

Hope waits the coming of the Lord, 
And faith stands leaning on his word. 



203. c. m. 

Unfruitfulness under Gospel Privileges. 

1 O God ! thy gracious aid impart 

To bend our wills to thine ; 
Melt our whole souls, and let ihem flow, 
And take the mould divine. 

2 The gracious truths which Jesus brought, 

How oft our ears have heard ! 
Yet still how weak our faith is found, 
And knowledge of thy word ! 

3 How cold and feeble is our love ! 

How negligent our fear ! 
How low our hope of jo} r s above ! 
How few affections there ! 

4 O deep impress that perfect law, 

Which noblest freedom gives : 
And let it all our souls refine, 
And sanctify our lives. 



Part III.] PENITENTIAL AFFECTIONS. 

5 Not with a transient glance surveyed, 

And in an hour forgot, 
But deep inscribed on every heart, 
To reign o'er every thought. 

6 Teach our forgetful feet the way 

That leads to joys above ; 
Devotion then shall fire the breast, 
And the whole soul be love. 

204. l. m. 

Personal and prevailing Sins lamented and deprecated. 

1 My God ! what inward grief I feel 
When impious men transgress thy will ; 
Mine ears are pained when lips profane 
Take thy tremendous name in vain. 

2 O let my soul indignant hate 
The arts of malice and deceit ; 
And far from their communion flee, 
Who dare revile thy laws and thee. 

3 Let pious friendship, when I stray, 
Mark and reprove my wandering way ! 
Its gentle words from hearts as kind, 
Shall comfort while they heal the mind. 

4 Thou, who discernest all my heart, 
And all my life in every part, 
Unseal my partial eyes to see 
What guilt in either there may be. 

5 Doth secret mischief lurk within ? 
Do I indulge some unknown sin ? 
O turn my feet whene'er I stray, 
And guide me in thy perfect way ! 



PENITENTIAL AFFECTIONS. [Part III. 

205. ~s. M . 

Freedom from Error, Guilt, and Folly. Ps. xix. 1». 

1 Blest instructer ! from thy ways, 
Who can tell how oft he strays ? 
Save from error's growth our mind, 
Leave not, Lord, one root behind. 

2 Purge us from the guilt that lies 
Wrapt within our heart's disguise ; 
Let us thence, by thee renewed, 
Each presumptuous sin exclude. 

3 So our lot shall ne'er be joined 
With the men, whose impious mind, 
Fearless of thy just command, 
Braves the vengeance of thy hand. 

4 Let our tongues, from error free, 
Speak the words approved by thee : 
To thine all-observing eyes 

Let our thoughts accepted rise. 

5 While we thus thy name adore, 
And thy healing grace implore, 
Blest instructer ! bow thine ear : 
God our strength ! propitious hear. 

206. 7s. m. 

A penitential Hymn. 

1 God of mercy ! God of love ! 
Hear our sad repentant songs ; 
Listen to thy suppliant race, 
Thou to whom all grace belongs. 



Part III.] PENITENTIAL AFFECTIONS. 

2 Deep regret for follies past, 
Talents wasted, time misspent ; 
Hearts debased by worldly cares, 
Thankless for the blessings lent — 

3 Foolish fears and fond desires, 
Vain regrets for things as vain ; 
Lips too seldom taught to praise, 
Oft to murmur and complain — 

4 These, and every secret fault, 
Filled with grief and shame we own ; 
Humbled at thy feet we lie, 
Seeking pardon from thy throne. 

5 God of mercy ! God of grace ! 
Hear our sad repentant songs ; 
O restore thy suppliant race, 
Thou to whom our praise belongs ! 

207. l. m. 

Supplication to the Searcher of Hearts. 

1 Searcher of hearts ! my thoughts review ; 
With kind severity pursue 

Through each disguise thy servant's mind, 
Nor leave one stain of guilt behind. 

2 To know itself, my soul awake, 
Severest scrutiny to make ; 

Does no dark sign, no ground of fear, 
In practise or in heart appear ? 

3 What image does my spirit bear ? 
Is Jesus formed and living there ? 
Say, do his lineaments divine 

In thought, and word, and action shine ? 
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4 Searcher of hearts ! O search me still ; 
The secrets of my soul reveal : 

My fears removed, let me appear 

To God and my own conscience clear. 

5 Scatter the clouds that o'er my head 
Their dubious gloom and terror spread ; 
Lead me into celestial day, 

And to myself, myself display. 

208. c. m. 

Inconstancy in the Christian Life lamented. Hos. vi. 4. 

1 Perpetual Source of light and grace ! 

We hail thy sacred name ; 
Through every year's revolving round, 
Thy goodness is the same. 

2 On us, unworthy as we are, 

Its wondrous mercy pours ; 
Sure as the heaven's established course, 
And plenteous as the showers. 

3 Inconstant service we repay, 

And treacherous vows renew ; 
Which pass away as morning clouds, 
And as the early dew. 

4 Low at thy feet our guilt we mourn. 

And ask thy constant grace, 
To bear our feeble footsteps on, 
In all thy righteous ways. 

5 Armed with this energy divine, 

Our souls shall constant prove, 
And, with increasing transport, press 
On to thy courts above. 



Part III.] PENITENTIAL AFFECTIONS. 

6 So, by thy power, the morning sun 
Pursues his radiant way, 
Brightens each moment in his race, 
And shines to perfect day. 

209. l. m. 

Contrite Supplication. Ps. li. 

1 O God of mercy ! hear, forgive ; 
Let a repenting rebel live : 

Are not thy mercies large and free ? 
May not the contrite trust in thee ? 

2 My sins, though great, cannot surpass 
The power and glory of thy grace ; 
Great God ! thy nature hath no bound, 
So let thy pardoning love be found. 

3 O wash my soul from every stain, 
Nor let the guilt I mourn, remain : 
Here on my heart the burden lies, 
And past offences pain' mine ej^es. 

4 With shame my numerous sins I trace 
Against thy law, against thy grace ; 

And though my prajer thou shouldst not 
My doom is just and thou art clear, [hear, 

5 Yet save a penitent, O Lord ! 

Whose hope still hovering round thy word, 
Would light on some kind promise there, 
Some sure support against despair. 

6 Then shall thy love inspire my tongue ; 
Salvation shall be all my song ; 

And every power shall join to bless 
The Lord, my strength and righteousness. 



PEJtfTENTIAL AFFECTIONS. [Part III. 

210. s. m, 

[Absence from God.] 

1 O thou, whose mercy hears 
Contrition's humble sigh ; 

Whose hand indulgent, wipes the tear 
From sorrow's weeping eye ! 

2 See ; low before thy throne 

A wretched wanderer mourn ; 
Hast thou not bid me seek thy face ? 
Hast thou not said, — Return ? 

3 Absent from thee, my light ; 
Without one cheering ray ; 

Through dangers, fears, and gloomy night. 
How desolate my way ! 

4 On^this benighted heart 
With beams of mercy shine ; 

And let thy healing voice impart 
A taste of joys divine. 

5 Thy presence can bestow 
Delights which never cloy : 

Be this my solace here below. 
And my eternal joy ! 



211. 



M. 



Hope in the divine Mercy. 

I When rising from the bed of death, 
O'erwhelmed with guilt and fear, 
I see my Maker face to face, 
O how shall I appear ! 



Part III.] PENITENTIAL AFFECTIONS. 

2 If yet while pardon may be found, 

And mercy may be sought, 
My heart with inward horror shrinks, 
And trembles at the thought : 

3 When thou, O Lord ! shalt stand disclosed 

In majesty severe, 
And sit in judgment on my soul ; 
O how shall I appear ! 

4 But there ? s forgiveness, Lord, with thee ; 

Thy nature is benign ; 
Thy pardoning mercy I implore, 
For mercy, Lord, is thine. 

5 O let thy boundless mercy shine 

On my benighted soul ! 
Correct my passions, mend my heart, 
And all my fears control. 

<3 And may I taste thy richer grace 
In that decisive hour, 
When Christ to judgment shall descend, 
And time shall be no more. 

212. 61 L. M. 

Prayer of the dejected Penitent. Ps. cxxx. 

1 From depths of sadness and distress, 
From gloomy mazes of despair, 
Thy throne of mercy we address ; 
Deign, O our God ! to hear our prayer : 
O let thine ear indulge our grief, 

For thine indulgence is relief ! 

2 Shouldst thou, O God ! minutely scan 
Our faults, and as severely chide ; 



PENITENTIAL AFFECTIONS. [Part III, 

No mortal seed of sinful man 
Could such a scrutiny abide ; 
But mercy shines in all thy ways, 
Bright theme of universal praise ! 

With longing eyes we seek the Lord, 
Before his throne our souls attend : 
Firmly on his eternal word 
Our faith is fixed, our hopes depend : 
On wings of love our souls shall rise 
In contemplation to the skies. 

Ye contrite minds ! on God rely ; 
In season he will grace impart, 
Will send redemption from on high, 
And soothe the penitential heart : 
For mercy shines in all his ways, 
Bright theme of universal praise ! 

213. s. m. 

Peace to the returning Penitent. 

1 Sweet is the friendly voice, 
That speaks of life and peace j 

That bids the penitent revive, 
And all his anguish cease. 

2 No balm on earth beside 
Can cheer the contrite heart ; 

No flattering dreams of earthly bliss, 
Such pure delight impart. 

3 Still merciful and kind, 
That mercy, Lord ! reveal : 

The broken heart 'tis thou canst bind, 
The wounded spirit heal. 



Part III.] PENITENTIAL AFFECTIONS. 

4 Thy presence can restore 
Peace to my anxious breast : 

And aid me in the path that leads 
To everlasting rest. 

5 Let me with wilful mind, 
No more thy laws offend : 

Then shall I know nor guilt nor fear, 
If thou be still my friend. 

214. c. m. 

Mercy to the Penitent. 

1 O thou, the wretched's sure retreat, 

Who dost our cares control, 
And with the cheerful smile of peace 
Revive the fainting soul ! 

2 Did ever thy propitious ear 

The humble plea disdain ? 
Or when did plaintive misery sigh, 
Or supplicate in vain ? 

3 Oppressed with grief and shame, dissolved 

In penitential tears ; 
Thy goodness calms our anxious doubts. 
And dissipates our fears, 

4 New life from thy refreshing grace 

Our sinking hearts receive : 
Thy gentlest, best-loved attribute, 
To pity and forgive. 

5 From that blest source, propitious hope 

Appears serenely bright, 
And sheds her soft and cheering beam 
O'er sorrow's dismal night. 



PENITENTIAL AFFECTIONS. [Part III. 

6 Our hearts adore thy mercy, Lord, 
And bless the friendly ray, 
Which ushers in the smiling morn 
Of everlasting day. 



215. c. m. 

The lasting Satisfactions of a virtuous Course 

1 The sacred joy which virtue brings, 

The lasting joy of truth, 
Depends not on the blooming scene, 
The scene of transient youth. 

2 Through nature's great and constant change, 

Unconscious of decay, 
It views unmoved the scythe of time 
Sweep all besides away. 

3 Fixed on their own unchanging base, 

Eternal are these joys ; 
While borne on transitory wings 
Each mortal pleasure flies. 

4 While every short-lived flower of sense, 

Destructive years consume, 
Through virtue's fair, delightful walk, 
Unfading myrtles bloom. 

5 Nor with the narrow bounds of time 

The beauteous prospect ends, 
But lengthened through the vale of death, 
To paradise extends. 



Fait III.] THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. 

216. c. m. 

The Influence of habitual Piety. 

1 Blest is the man who fears the Lord ! 

His well established mind, 

In every varying scene of life, 

Shall true composure find. 

2 Oft through the deep and stormy sea, 

The heavenly footsteps lie ; 
But on a glorious world beyond, 
His faith can fix its eye. 

3 Though dark his present prospects be, 

And sorrows round him dwell, 
Yet hope 'can whisper to his soul, 
That all shall issue well. 

4 Full in the presence of his God, 

Through every scene he goes ; 
And fearing him, no other fear 
His steadfast bosom knows. 

5 No dangers can his soul alarm, 

No gloomy views affright ; 
For faith assures his humble heart, 
Whatever is, is right. 



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A good Conscience the best Support. 

While some in folly's pleasures roll, 
And court the joys which hurt the soul ; 
Be mine that silent, calm repast, 
A peaceful conscience to the last : — 

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2 That tree which bears immortal fruit, 
Without a canker at the root ; 

That friend, who never fails the just, 
When other friends betray their trust. 

3 With this companion in the shade, 
My soul no more shall be disma3 r ed ; 
But fearless meet the midnight gloom, 
And the pale monarch of the tomb. 

4 Though heaven afflict, shall I repine ? 
The noblest comforts still are mine ; 
Comforts which over death prevail, 
And journey with me through the vale. 

5 Amidst the various scenes of ills, 
Each stroke some kind design fulfils : 
And shall I murmur at my God, 
When love supreme directs the rod ? 

6 His hand will smooth my rugged way, 
And lead me to the realms of day ; 
To milder skies and brighter plains, 
Where everlasting pleasure reigns. 

218. c. m. 

God the Christian's Refuge. 

1 When storms hang o'er the Christian's head, 

He flies to meet his God : 
And under his refreshing shade 
Finds a secure abode. 

2 When foes without, and fears within, 

Seek to disturb his peace, 
To God he makes his sorrows known, 
And straight his sorrows cease. 



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3 But when tremendous terrors seize, 

Where will the sinner fly ? 
He feels a thousand agonies, 
And no deliverer nigh ! 

4 Then fly, my soul, the tents of sin ; 

How false her joys appear! 
Noise and confusion dwell within ; 
Peace is a stranger there. 

5 The men who keep the laws of God, 

Plis choicest blessings share ; 
Or if he lifts his chastening rod, 
7 Tis with a Father's care. 

6 His mighty power shall guard the just, 

His wisdom point their way ; 
His eye shall watch their sleeping dust, 
His hand revive their clay. 

219. c. m. 

The inward Life of the Christian. Col. iii. 3. 

1 O happy soul, that lives on high, 

While men lie grovelling here ! 
His hopes are fixed above the sky, 
And faith forbids his fear. 

2 His conscience knows no secret stings, 

While grace and joy combine 
To form a life, whose holy springs 
Are hidden and divine. 

3 He waits in secret on his God ; 

His God in secret sees ; 
Let earth be all in arms abroad, 
He dwells in heavenly peace. 



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4 His pleasures rise from things unseen, 

Beyond this world and time ; 
Where neither eyes nor ears have been. 
Nor thoughts of mortals climb. 

5 He wants no pomp nor royal throne 

To raise his honours here ; 
Content and pleased to live unknownj 
Till Christ his life appear. 

220. l. m. 

The Safety and Happiness of the true Christian. 

1 Lord ! how secure and blest is he, 
Who feels the joys of pardoned sin ! 
Let tempests shake the earth and sea, 
His mind hath peace and heaven within. 

2 What honour and what bliss unite 
The precious name he wears, to raise ! 
Fair is the scene and clear the light, 
That fills the remnant of his days. 

3 With joy he reads forgiveness sealed, 
From God derives renewing strength, 
And tastes his boundless love revealed 
In all its height and breadth and length. 

4 The thoughts of home his spirit cheer, 
No more he grieves for troubles past, 
Nor future trials waken fear, 

So he may safe arrive at last. 

5 Nearest the throne and first in song. 
Such shall the grateful tribute raise, 
While angel-hosts around them throng. 
And swell the chorus of their praise. 



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221. c. m. 

The Way of the Righteous and the Wicked. Ps. i. 

1 Blest is the man who shuns the place 

Where sinners love to meet : 
Who fears to tread in folly's ways, 
And hates the scoffer's seat. 

2 But in thy perfect statutes, Lord ! 

Has placed his chief delight ; 
By day devoutly reads thy word, 
And meditates by night. 

3 He like a tree of generous kind 

By living waters set, 
Safe from the storm and blasting wind. 
Enjoys a peaceful state. 

4 Green as the leaf and ever fair 

Shall his profession shine ; 

While fruits of holiness appear 

Like clusters on the vine. 

5 Not so the impious and unjust : 

What vain designs they form ; 
Their hopes are swept away like dust, 
Or chaff before the storm. 

6 How shall they bear at last to stand 
Before that judgment seat, 
Where all the saints at thy right hand 
In full assembly meet ? 

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222. l. m. 

Virtue the Source of Peace. Ps. i. 

1 O blest is he, divinely blest, 

Whose heart no guilty thoughts employ ! 
God's endless sunshine fills his breast, 
And conscience whispers peace and joy. 

2 Pure rectitude's unerring way 

His heaven-conducted steps pursue ; 
While crowds in guilt and error stray, 
Unstained his soul, and bright his view. 

3 By God's almighty arm sustained, 
Thus virtue soon or late shall rise ; 
Enjoy her conquest, nobly gained, 
And share the triumph of the skies. 

4 But fools, to sacred wisdom blind, 
Who sin's alluring call obey, 
Far other fate at last shall find, 
And fall, destruction's easy prey. 

223. c. m. 

God's Chastisements not vindictive. 

1 Great Ruler of all nature's frame ! 

We own thy power divine ; 
We hear thy breath in every storm, 
For all the winds are thine. 

2 The hand that now withholds my joys, 

Can reinstate my peace ! 
And he who bade the tempest roar. 
Can bid the tempest cease. 



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3 How oft, when black misfortune's band 

Around their victim stood, 
The seeming ill at thy rebuke, 
Hath changed to real good. 

4 This truth oft shown, shall teach me well 

To feel for other's woe ; 
And humbly seek with deep concern 
My own defects to know. 

5 Mercy impels the mournful stroke, 

That would our bosoms free 
From earthly care and sensual joy, 
And turn our thoughts to thee. 

6 That mercy tempers every blast 

To them that seek thy face ; 
And mingles with the whirlwind's roar, 
The whispers of thy grace. 

224. l. m. 

The divine Benignity. 

1 How well our great Protector knows 
To weigh, and to relieve our woes ! 
And on his arm who place their trust, 
Shall find that confidence was just. 

2 How prompt his favour to dispense 
Its life-imparting influence ! 

How speedy his paternal love 
Our deep afflictions to remove ! 

3 Grief for a night, obtrusive guest ! 
Beneath our roof perchance may rest ; 
But joy, with the returning day, 
Shall wipe each transient tear away. 



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4 Since thou wilt hearken to my prayer, 
Again the face of joy I wear : 

Thy strength my fainting spirit cheers, 
And checks my griefs, and calms my fears. 

5 With what delight, great God, I trace 
The acts of thy stupendous grace ! 

To count them, were to count the sand 
That lies upon the sea-beat strand. 

225. c. m. 

" He healejth the broken in Heart and bindeth up thei)- 
Wounds." Ps. cxlvii. 3. 

1 When reft of all, and hopeless care 

Would sink us to the tomb, 
Wliat power shall save us from despair, 
What, dissipate the gloom ? 

2 No balm that earthly plants distil, 

Can soothe the mourner's smart. 
No mortal hand with lenient skill, 
Bind up the broken heart. 

3 But One alone who reigns above, 

Our woe to joy can turn, 
And light the lamp of life and love, 
That long has ceased to burn. 

47 Then, O my soul ! to that One flee, 
To God thy woes reveal ; 
His eye alone thy wounds can see, 
His power alone can heal. 



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226. C. M. 

The Comforts of Religion. 

1 When gloomy thoughts and boding fears 

The trembling heart invade, 
And all the face of nature wears 
An universal shade : 

2 Religion's dictates can assuage 

The tempest of the soul ; 
And every storm shall cease to rage, 
At her divine control. 

3 Through life's bewildered, darksome way, 

Her hand unerring leads ; 
And o'er the path her heavenly ray 
A cheering lustre sheds. 

4 When feeble reason, tired and blind, 

Sinks helpless and afraid ; 
Thou blest supporter of the mind ! 
How powerful is thine aid : 

5 O let my heart confess thy power, 

And find thy sweet relief, 
To brighten every gloomy hour, 
And soften every grief. 

227. c. m. 

Consolatory Views of Nature and Providence. 

1 The God of heaven is kind and just: — 
O let not man complain, 
His righteous providence distrust, 
His high decrees arraign. 



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Though clouds should darken all the scene, 

Be this thy steadfast aim, 
Still to preserve a mind serene, 

And free from guilt and shame. 

The lowliest flowers that deck the field, 

Thy mute instructers are ; 
And wholesome admonition yield 

Against corroding care. 

Oh ! listen to kind nature's voice : 

To heaven direct thine eyes ; 
There nobler objects claim thy choice, 

And brighter prospects rise. 

Far from anxiety and care, 

Still seek that blissful shore, 
Where discontent and dark despair 

Shall rend thy heart no more. 

228. c. u. 






God the Source of Consolation and Health-. 

1 To calm the sorrows of the mind, 

Thou, gracious friend ! art nigh, 
To wipe the anxious tear that starts, 
Or trembles in the eye. 

2 Thou canst, when anguish rends the heart, 

The secret woe control ; 

The inward malady canst heal, 

The sickness of the soul. 

3 Thou canst repress the rising sigh, 

Canst soothe each mortal care ; 
And every deep and heart-felt groan 
Is wafted to thine ear. 



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4 Thy gracious eye is watchful still ; 

Thy potent arm can save 
From threatening danger and disease, 
And the devouring grave] 

5 When, pale and languid all the frame, 

The ruthless hand of pain 
Arrests the feeble powers of life, 
The help of man is vain. 

6 'Tis thou, great God ! alone canst check 

The progress of disease ; 
And sickness, awed by power divine, 
The high command obeys. 

7 Eternal source of life and health, 

And every bliss we feel ! 
In sorrow and in joy, to thee 
Our grateful hearts appeal. 

229. 6 I L. M. 

The Memory and the Prospects of the good Man blessed. 
Ps. cxii. 

1 Blest is that man, who stands in awe 
Of God, and fears his sacred law ; 

He gains on earth a fair renown : 
While sinners with their hopes decay, 
He shall enjoy an endless day, 

A heavenly, an immortal crown. 

2 His hands while they his alms bestow, 
His glory's future harvest sow ; 

The sweet remembrance of the just, 
Like a green root, revives and bears 
A train of blessings for his heirs, 

When dying nature sleeps in dust, 



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3 Beset with threatening dangers round, 
Unmoved shall he maintain his ground, 

His conscience bears his courage up ; 
The soul that 's filled with virtue's light, 
Shines brightest in affliction's night, 

And sees in darkness beams of hope. 

230. c. m. 

The everlasting Covenant. 2. Sam. xxiii. 5. 

1 My God ! the covenant of thy love 

Abides forever sure ; 
And in its matchless grace, we feel 
Our happiness secure. 

2 What though our house be not with thee, 

As nature could desire ; — 
To higher joys than nature gives, 
Our nobler views aspire. 

3 Since thou, the everlasting God, 

Our Father art become ; 
Jesus our guardian and our friend, 
And heaven our final home ; — 

4 We welcome all thy sovereign will, 

For all that will is love ; 
And when thy providence is dark, 
We wait the light above. 

5 What though our mortal comforts fade, 

And drop like withering flowers ? 
Nor time, nor death shall break that band 9 
Which makes Jehovah ours. 



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231. C. M. 

Encouragement from the Experience of God's Good- 
ness. Ps. xxxiv. 

1 Through all the changing scenes of life, 

In trouble and in joy, 
The praises of my God shall still 
My heart and tongue employ. 

2 The hosts of God encamp around 

The dwellings of the just ; 

Deliverance he affords to all, 

Who on his succour trust. 

3 O ! make but trial of his love, 

Experience will decide, 
How blest they are, and only they, 
Who in his truth confide. 

4 Fear him, ye saints ; and you will then 

Have nothing else to fear : 
Make you his service your delight, 
Your wants shall be his care. 

232. L. M. 

Confidence of good Men in the divine Faithfulness, 

1 Praise, everlasting praise be paid 
To him who earth's foundations laid ; 
Praise to the God, whose sovereign will 
All nature's laws and powers fulfil. 

2 Praise to the goodness of the Lord, 
Who rides his people by his word ; 
W'here faith contemplates his decrees^ 
And every gracious promise sees. 

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3 There may the humble, pious mind, 
Support in all its troubles find ; 

And on that mighty Cod may stay, [play. 
Whose power the earth and heavens dis- 

4 Whence then arise distressing fears ? 
Why do we still indulge our tears T 
Or why without those comforts live, 
Our God and father waits to give ? 

5 O for a strong and lasting faith, 
To credit what the Almighty saith ; 
To embrace the message of his son, 
And call the joys of heaven our own. 

6 Should earth then to its centre shake, 
And all the wheels of nature break, 
Our steadfast souls should fear no more 
Than ocean's base when tempests roar. 



God the Refuge of the troubled Mind. 

.1 My God ! the visits of thy face 
A (lord superior jo} r , 
To all that charms this thoughtless race^ 
Or can their hopes employ. 

1 To thee I tell each rlsino- grief, 
For thou alone canst heal ; 
Thy promises bring sweet relief, 
For every pain I feel. 

3 But when distressing doubts prevail, 
I fear to call thee mine ; 
The springs of comfort seem to fail* 
And all my hopes decline. 



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4 Yet. gracious God ! where shall I flee ? 

Thou art my only trust ; 
And still my soul would rise to thee, 
Though prostrate in the dust. 

5 Hast thou not bid me seek thy face ? 

And shall I seek in vain ? 
And can the ear of sovereign grace 
Be deaf when I complain ? 

6 Thy mercy-seat is open still, 

There shall my soul retreat ; 
With humble hope attend thy will, 
And wait beneath thy seat. 

234. l. m. 

Christian Patience, Consolation, and Hope, 

1 And is there then, no lenient art, 
To heal the anguish of the heart ? 
To ease the heavy load of care 
Which nature must, but cannot bear ? 

2 Can reason's dictates be obeyed ? 
Too weak, alas ! her strongest aid ; 
O let religion then be nigh, 

Her consolations cannot die. 

3 Her powerful aid supports the soul, 
And nature owns her kind control ; 
While she unfolds the sacred page, 
Our fiercest griefs resign their rage. 

4 Then, gentle patience smiles on pain, 
And dying hope revives again ; 

Hope wipes the tear from sorrow's eye, 
And faith points upward to the sky: 



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5 The promise guides her ardent flight, 
And joys, unknown to sense, invite 
Those blissful regions to explore, 
Where pleasure blooms to fade no more. 

235. 61 C. M. 

The unrivalled Beauty and Glory of Religion. 

1 Soft are the fruitful showers that bring 
The welcome promise of the spring, 

And soft the vernal gale : 
Sweet the wild warblings of the grove, 
The voice of nature and of love, 

That gladden every vale. 

2 But softer in the mourner's ear, 
Sounds the mild voice of mercy near, 

That whispers sins forgiven ; 
And sweeter far the music swells, 
When to the raptured soul she tells 

Of peace and promised heaven. 

3 Fair are the flowers that deck the ground ; 
And groves and gardens blooming round, 

Unnumbered charms unfold : 
Bright is the sun's meridian ray, 
And bright the beams of setting day, 

That robe the clouds in gold. 

4 But far more fair the pious breast, 
In richer robes of goodness drest, 

Where heaven's own graces shine ; 
And brighter far the prospects rise, 
That burst on faith's delighted eyes, 

From glories all divine. 



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236. c. m. 

Faith. 

1 Ah ! why should this mistaken mind 

Still rove with restless pain ? 
Delight on earth expect to find, 
Yet still expect in vain ? 

2 Faith, rising upwards, points her view 

To regions in the skies ; 
There, lovelier scenes than Eden knew, 
In bright perspective rise. 

3 O ! if this heaven-born grace were mine, 

Would not my spirit soar, 
Transported gaze on joys divine, 
And cleave to earth no more ? 

4 Thou power, from whose almighty breath 

It first began to rise, 
Purge off these mists, these dregs of earth) 
And bid it reach the skies. 

5 Let this weak, erring mind no more 

On earth bewildered rove ; 
But with celestial ardor soar 
To endless joys above. 

237. c. m. 

The Power of Faith. 

1 Faith adds new charms to earthly bliss. 
And saves us from its snares ; 
Its aid in every duty brings, 
And softens all our cares : 

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2 Extinguishes the thirst of sin, 

And lights the sacred fire 
Of love to God, and heavenly things, 
And feeds the pure desire. 

3 The wounded conscience knows its power 

The healing balm to give ; 
That balm the saddest heart can cheer, 
And make the dying live. 

4 Wide it unveils celestial worlds, 

Where deathless pleasures reign, 
And bids us seek our portion there, 
Nor bids us seek in vain. 

5 On that bright prospect may we rest, 

Till this frail body dies ; 
And then, on fakirs triumphant wings 
To endless glory rise. 



233. c. m. 

Aspirations after perfect Obedience, Ps. cxix. 

1 O that the Lord would guide my ways 

To keep his statutes still : 
O that my God would grant me grace 
To know and do his will. 

2 Since I 'm a stranger here below, 

My path let nothing hide ; 
But mark the road my feet should go, 
And be my constant guide. 

S Order my footsteps by thy word, 
And make my soul sincere ; 
Let sin have no dominion, Lord ! 
JBut keep my conscience clear. 



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4 How would I run in thy commands, 

If thou my heart discharge 
From sin and passion's hateful bands, 
And set my feet at large ! 

5 My lips with courage shall declare 

Thy statutes and thy name, 
Whatever loss or scorn I bear, 
Nor yield to sinful shame. 

6 Aid me to walk in thy commands 

Through life's uncertain road ; 
Nor let my head, or heart, or hands. 
Offend against my God. 

239. l. m. 

Exemplary Virtue. 

1 Ah! worldly souls, who strive in vain, 
To folly slaves, and slaves to sin ! 
May I a nobler toil sustain, 

And nobler satisfaction win. 

2 May 1 resolve with all my heart, 

With all nry powers to serve thee, Lord ! 
Nor from thy precepts e'er depart, 
Whose service is a rich reward. 

3 O be that service all my joy ! 
Around let my example shine, 
Till others love the blest employ, 
And join in labours so divine. 

4 Be this the purpose of my soul, 
My solemn, my determined choice, 
To yield to thy supreme control, 
And in thy kind commands rejoice. 



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5 O may 1 never faint nor tire, 
Nor, wandering leave thy sacred ways ; 
Great God ! accept my soul's desire, 
And give me strength to live thy praise. 

240. l. m. 

The Day of Probation and Hope. Eccles. ix. 

1 Life is the time to serve thee, Lord ! 
The time t' insure thy great reward ; 
And while the lamp holds out to burn, 
To thee the sinner may return. 

2 Life is the season thou hast given, 
To lit us for the joys of heaven ; 
Fast fleets that hour of grace away, 
And who its rapid course can stay ? 

3 The living know that they must die ; 
But all the dead unconscious lie ; 
Their memory and their sense is gone, 
Alike unknowing and unknown. 

4 There are no acts of pardon passed 
In the cold grave to which we haste : 
Oblivion, darkness, and despair, 
Still reign in gloomy silence there. 

5 Then the great work we have to do, 
Let us with all our might pursue : 
And wisely every hour employ, 
Till faith and hope are lost in joy. 



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241. c. m. 

Heavenly Wisdom implored through the Perils of Life. 

1 Father of light ! conduct my feet 

Through life ? s dark, dangerous road ; 
Let each advancing step still bring 
Me nearer to my God. 

2 Let heaven-eyed prudence be my guide, 

And when I go astray, 
Recal my feet from folly's path, 
To wisdom's better way. 

3 Teach me in every various scene 

To keep my end in sight ; 
And while I tread life's mazy track, 
Let wisdom guide me right. 

4 That heavenly wisdom from above 

Abundantly impart ; 
And let it guard, and guide, and warm, 
And penetrate my heart ; 

5 Till it shall lead me to thyself, 

Fountain of bliss and love ! 
And all my darkness be dispersed 
In endless light above. 

242. l. m. 

Heavenly Guidance implored. 

1 Amidst a world of hopes and fears, 
A wild of cares, and toils, and tears, 
Where foes alarm and dangers threat, 
And pleasures kill, and glories cheat : 

2 Shed down, O Lord ! a heavenly ray 
To guide me in the doubtful way, 



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And o'er me hold thy shield of. power, 
To guard me in the dangerous hour. 

Each noble principle impart ; 
The faith which sanctifies the heart, 
Hope that to heaven's high vault aspires, 
And love that warms with holiest fires. 

Teach me the flattering paths to shun, 
In which the thoughtless many run, 
Who for a shade the substance miss, 
And grasp their ruin in their bliss. 

May never pleasure, wealth, or pride, 
Allure my wandering soul aside ; 
But through this maze of mortal ill, 
Safe lead me to thy heavenly hill. 

243. C. M. 

Human Frailty. 

Weak and irresolute is man : 

The purpose of to-day, 
Woven with pains into his plan, 

To-morrow rends away. 

Some foe to his upright intent, 

Finds out his weaker part ; 
Virtue engages his assent, 

But pleasure wins his heart. 

Life's voyage is of awful length, 
Through dangers little known : 

A stranger to superior strength, 
Man vainly trusts his own. 

But oars alone can ne'er prevail 

To reach the distant coast ; 
The breath of heaven must swell the sail, 

Or all the toil is lost. 



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244. l. m. 

The broad and the narrow Path. Matt vii. 13. 14. 

1 Broad is the road that leads to death, 
And thousands walk together there ; 
While wisdom shows a narrow path, 
With here and there a traveller. 

2 <l Deny thyself and take thy cross/' 
Is the redeemer's great command ; 
Nature must count her gold but dross. 
If she would win this heavenly land. 

3 The fearful soul that tires and faints, 
And treads the path of life no more, 
Forgets what joys await thy saints, 
And makes his own destruction sure. 

4 Let not my hopes, like such, be vain : 
But striving with thy faithful few, 
May I that pledge of glory gain, 
Which false pretenders never knew. 

245. c. m. 

The One Thing needful. Luke x. 42. 

1 Why do we waste in trilling cares, 
The lives divine compassion spares, 
While, in the various range of thought, 
The one thing needful is forgot ? 

2 Our Father calls us from above, 
Our Saviour pleads his dying love, 
Awakened conscience gives us pain ; 
Shall all these pleas unite in vain ? 



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3 Not so our dying eyes will view 
The objects which we now pursue ; 
Not so eternity appear, 

When the decisive hour is near. 

4 From vital air, from cheerful light, 
To the cold grave's perpetual night, 
From scenes of duty, means of grace, 
Must we to God's tribunal pass. 

5 Then wake, my soul, thy way prepare. 
And lose in this each meaner care ; 
With steady step that path be trod, 
Which through the grave conducts to God. 

6 Almighty Power ! thine aid impart 
To fix conviction on the heart : 
Thy light can clear the blindest eyes, 
And make the haughtiest scorner wise. 

246. l. m. 

The better Part. Luke x. 43. 

1 Beset with snares on every hand, 
In life's uncertain path we stand : 
Father divine ! diffuse thy light 

To guide our doubtful footsteps right. 

2 Engage our roving, treacherous heart. 
To choose the wise, the better part, 
To scorn the triiles of a day, 

For joys that never fade away. 

3 Then let the fiercest storms arise, 
Let tempests mingle earth and skies ; 
No fatal shipwreck shall we fear, 
But all our treasure wiih us bear. 



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4 If thou, our father ! still be nigh, 
Cheerful we live and joyful die ; 
Secure when mortal comforts flee, 
To find a thousand worlds in thee. 

247. c. m. 

Christian Watchfulness. 

1 Awake, my torpid soul ! awake, 

And view the threatening scene : 
Legions of foes encamp around, 
And treachery lurks within. 

2 'Tis not this mortal life alone 

These enemies assail ; 
How canst thou hope for future bliss, 
If their attempts prevail ? 

3 Not many years their round shall run, 

Not many mornings rise, 
Ere all its grandeur stands revealed 
To my admiring eyes. 

4 Then to the work of God awake — 

Behold thy master near — 
The various, arduous task pursue 
With vigour, and with fear. 

5 The awful register goes on, 

The account will surely come, 
And opening day, or closing night 
May bear me to my doom. 

6 Tremendous thought! how deep it strikes 1 

Yet like a dream it flies, 
Till God's own voice the slumbers chase 
From these deluded eyes. 
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248. l. m. 

Christian Patience and Fortitude. 

1 Father of lights ! my footsteps guide, 
Along the dangerous path I tread ; 
Ne'er suffer me to turn aside, 

By error or by sin misled. 

2 While the mad world around me spend 
Their days in folly or in crime ; 

that my feet may always tend 
To wise redemption of my time ! 

3 With truth illuminate my mind, 
Inspire with fortitude my heart : 
Ne'er let me wander with the blind, 
Nor waver in the Christian's part. 

4 Fashion and crowds conspire in vain, 
To shake the firmness of my soul, 
All your allurements I disdain, 

God only shall my choice control. 

249. c. m. 

Trust in God, under the Trials of Virtue. 

1 When from the verge of youth, my mind 

Life's opening scene surveyed ; 

1 viewed its ills of various kind, 

Afflicted and afraid. 

2 But chief my fear the dangers moved^ 

That virtue's path inclose ; 
My heart the wise pursuit approved* 
But Oh ! what toils oppose .' 



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3 For see, while yet her unknown ways 

With doubtful step I tread, 

A hostile world its terrors raise, 

Its snares delusive spread. 

4 Oh ! how shall I, with heart prepared, 

Those terrors learn to meet ? 
How, from the thousand snares to guard 
My inexperienced feet ? 

5 Let faith suppress each rising fear, 

Each anxious doubt exclude ; 
My Maker's will has placed me here, 
A Maker wise and good. 

6 He to my every trial knows 

Its just restraints to give ; 
Attentive to behold my woes, 
And faithful to relieve. 

7 Though griefs unnumbered throng thee 

Still in thy God confide, [round, 

Whose finger marks the seas' their bound, 
And curbs the rolling tide. 

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The Christian Warfare. 

i'Awake, my soul ! lift up thine eyes ; 
See where thy foes against thee rise, 
In long array, a numerous host ; 
Awake, my soul ! or thou art lost. 

2 Here giant danger threatening stands, 
Mustering his pale, terrific bands ; 
There pleasure's silken banners spread, 
And willing souls are captive led. 



difficulties of [Part III. 

3 See where rebellious passions rage, 
And fierce desires and lusts engage ; 
The meanest foe of all the train 

Has thousands and ten thousands slain. 

4 Thou tread'st upon enchanted ground ; 
Perils and snares beset thee round ; 
Beware of all ; guard every part ; 

But most, the traitor in thy heart. 

5 Come then, my soul ! now learn to wield 
The weight of thy immortal shield ; 

Put on the armour from above 

Of heavenly truth, and heavenly love. 

6 The terror and the charm repel, 

And powers of earth, and powers of hell ; 
The man of Calvary triumphed here : 
Why should his faithful followers fear ? 

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The Pilgrimage of Life. 

1 Our country is Immanuel's ground ; 

We seek that promised soil : 
The songs of Sion cheer our hearts, 
While strangers here we toil. 

2 Oft do our eyes with joy o'erflow, 

And oft are bathed in tears ; 
Yet nought but heaven our hopes can raise, 
And nought but sin our fears. 

3 The flowers that spring along the road, 

We scarcely stoop to pluck ; 

We walk o'er beds of shining ore, 

Nor waste one wishful look. 



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4 We tread the path our master trod : 

We bear the cross he bore ; 
And every thorn that wounds our feet, 
His temples pierced before. 

5 Our powers are oft dissolved away 

In ecstacies of love ; 
And while our bodies wander here, 
Our souls are fixed above. 

6 We purge our mortal dross away, 

Refining as we run ; 
But while we die to earth and sense, 
Our heaven is here begun. 

252. c. m. 

The Prayer of Jacob. Gen. xxviii. 20— 22. 

1 O God of Bethel ! by whose hand 

Thy people still are fed ; 
Who through this weary pilgrimage 
Hast all our fathers led : 

2 Our humble vows we now present 

Before thy throne of grace ; 
God of our fathers ! be the God 
Of their succeeding race. 

3 Through each perplexing path of life 

Be thou our guard and guide ; 
Each day's returning wants supply, 
And raiment fit provide. 

4 Oh ! spread thy covering shield around, 

Till these our wanderings cease, 
And at our Father's loved abode 
We rest at last in peace : 



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5 Now in the humble voice of prayer, 
Thy mercy we implore ; 
Then, with the grateful song of praise, 
That mercy we '11 adore. 

253. c. m. 

Imploring the divine Protection. Pro v. iii. 5, 6. 

1 Lord ! through the dubious path of life 

Thy feeble servant guide ! 
Supported by thy powerful ai d, 
My footsteps shall not slide. 

2 Let others, swelled with empty pride, 

Of wisdom make their boast ! 
My wisdom and my strength must come 
From thee, the Lord of hosts. 

3 To thee, O my unerring guide ! 

I would myself resign ; 
In all my ways acknowledge thee, 
And form my will to thine. 

4 In safety may thy creature rest 

On thy sustaining arm ; 
Extended still, and strong to save 
In danger and alarm. 

5 O let thy gracious presence chase 

Each anxious fear away ; 
Amid the ruins of the world, 
Our guardian and our stay ! 






Part III.] THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. 

254. L. M. 

God the Leader of his People. 

1 O God of our forefathers ! hear, 
And make thy faithful mercies known, 
While we with confidence draw near, 
And place our trust on thee alone. 

2 Arise, as in the ancient days, 

(The ancient annals speak thy fame,) 
Be now omnipotently nigh, 
To endless ages still the same. 

3 From Egypt, when thy chosen race 
Triumphant urged their wonderous way, 
Divinely led, behold they pass 

The unwatery deep, the emptied sea: 

4 At distance heaped on either hand, 
Yielding a strange unbeaten road, 
In crystal walls the waters stand, 
And own the arm of Israel's God. 

5 That arm which is not shortened now, 
Which wants not now the power to save, 
Shall present. with thy people still, 
Bear them o'er life's tumultuous wave. 

6 By earth and hell pursued in vain, 
To thee thy chosen seed shall come, 
Shouting, their heavenly Canaan gain, 
And pass through death triumphant home. 



THE CHANGES AND [Part III. 

255. c. m. 

Zeal and Vigour in the Christian Race. Phil. iii. 12—14. 

1 Awake, my soul ! stretch every nerve, 

And press with vigour on : 
A heavenly race demands thy zeal. 
And an immortal crown. 

2 A cloud of witnesses around 

Hold thee in full survey: 
Forget the steps already trod, 
And onward urge thy way. 

3 ; Tis God's all-animating voice 

That calls thee from on high ; 
? Tis his own hand presents the prize 
To thine aspiring eye : — 

4 That prize with peerless glories bright, 

Which shall new lustre boast, 
When victors' wreaths and monarchs* gems' 
Shall blend in common dust. 

5 My soul, with sacred ardour fired, 

The glorious prize pursue ; 
And cheerful hear thy master's callj 
To bid this earth adieu. 



256. c. if. 

The Vanity of worldly Desires and Pursuits. 

1 When in the light of faith divine, 
We look on things below ; 
The good which men most fondly prize, 
How vain and dangerous too ! 



Part III.] VANITY OF LIFE. 

2 Pleasure's delusive form we chase, 

Or dig for shining ore ; 
At honours gaudy shrine we bow, 
Or grasp at boundless power. 

3 The fondness of a creature's love, 

How strong it strikes the sense ! 
Thither the warm affections tend, 
Nor can we call them thence. 

4 Yet what around this spacious earth, 

Can fill the soul's desire ? 
To boundless joy, substantial wealth, 
My nobler thoughts aspire. 

5 Where pleasure rolls its living stream. 

From sin and dross refined, 
Still springing from the throne of God, 
To cheer th' enraptured mind : 

6 The Almighty Ruler of the sphere, 

The glorious and the great, 
Brings his own all-sufficience there, 
To make our bliss complete. 

25.7. 7s. m. 

Complete Happiness not designed for Man on Earth. 

1 Providence, profusely kind, 
Wheresoe'er you turn your eyes, 
Bids you with a grateful mind, 
View a thousand blessings rise. 



THE CHANGES AND [Part 111. 

2 But, perhaps some friendly voice 
Softly whispers to your mind — 
Make not these alone your choice, 
Heaven has blessings more refined* 

3 Thankful own what you enjoy ; 
But a changing world like this, 
Where a thousand fears annoy. 
Cannot give you perfect bliss. 

4 Perfect bliss resides above, 
Far above yon azure sky ; 
Bliss that merits all your love, 
Merits every anxious sigh. 

5 What like this has earth to give ? 
O ye righteous ! in your breast 
Let the admonition live, 

Nor on earth desire to rest, 

6 When your bosom breathes a sigh. 
Or your eye emits a tear, 

Let your wishes rise on high, 
Ardent rise to bliss sincere. 

258. c. m. 

God, the supreme Good. Ps. iv. 6, 7. 

1 When fancy spreads her boldest wing 

And wanders unconfined 
Amid th' unbounded scene of things. 
Which entertain the mind : 

2 In vain we trace creation o'er, 

Tn search of sacred rest; 
The whole creation is too poor, 
Too mean to make us blest> 



Part III.j VANITY OF LIFE. 

3 In vain would this low world employ 

Each flattering, specious wile ; 
For what can yield a real joy, 
But our Creator's smile. 

4 Let earth and all her charms depart, 

Unworthy of the mind ; 
In God alone this restless heart 
An equal bliss can find. 

5 Great spring of all felicity, 

To whom our wishes tend ! 
Do not these wishes rise from thee, 
And in thy favour end ? 

259. l. m. 

*' Thou art our Dwelling-place in all Generations." Ps. xc. 1 

1 Thou, Lord! through every changing scene. 
Hast to thy saints a refuge been ; 
Through each successive age, O God .' 
Their tranquil home, and safe abode. 

2 In thee our fathers sought their rest, 
And were with thy protection blest ; 
Lo, we are risen, a transient race, 
A while to fill their vacant place. 

3 While travelling through life's varied road, 
We lean upon our father's God ; 

On thee our steadfast hopes recline, 
Nor own, nor ask, a help but thine. 

4 Through all the thorny paths we trace, 
In this uncertain wilderness, 

Where friends desert, and foes invade, 
Revive our -heart and sward our head* 



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5 Thus voices yet unformed shall raise 
A grateful tribute to thy praise ; 

Our children learn their father's song, 
And theirs ihe cheerful notes prolong. 

6 Thou Parent of the human race, 
Thou fountain of exhaustless grace ? 
Thy mercy, ages past have known, 
And ages long to come shall own. 

260. l. m. 

Mutability of the Creation and Immutability of God, 
Ps. cii. 25-23. 

1 Great Former of this various frame ! 
Our souls adore thine awful name, 

And bow with reverence, while we praise 
The ancient of eternal days. 

2 Beyond an angel's vision bright, 
Thou dwelPst in uncreated light ; 
Which shines with undiminished ray, 
While suns and systems pass away. 

3 Our days a transient period run, 
And change with every circling sun ; 
And, in the firmest state we boast, 
A moth can crush us into dust. 

4 But let all nature fall around ; 

Let death consign us to the ground ; 
Let the last general flame arise, 
Consume the earth, dissolve the skies i 

5 Calm as the summer's ocean, we 
Can all the wreck of nature see, 
While grace secures us an abode, 
Unshaken as the throne of God. 



Part III.] VANITY OF LIFE. 

261. c. m. 

The Vanity of human Life. 

1 Frail life of man ! how short its stay. 

And various as the wind ! 
We laugh and sport our hours away, 
Nor heed the woes behind. 

2 See the fair cheek of beauty fade ! 

Frail glory of an hour ; 
And blooming youth, with sickening head. 
Droop like the dying flower. 

3 Wealth, pomp, and honour, we behold 

With an admiring eye, 
Like summer insects, dressed in gold, 
That flutter, shine, and die. 

4 Then rise, my soul, and soar away 

Above the thoughtless crowd, 
Above the pleasures of the gay, 
And splendours of the proud ; 

5 Where everlasting beauties bloom, 

And pleasures all divine ; 
Where wealth, that never can consume, 
And endless glories shine. 

262. c. m. 

The Instability of worldly Enjoyments. Eccles. i. 2. 

1 The evils that beset our path, 
Who can prevent or cure ? 
We stand upon the brink of death, 
When most we seem secure. 
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THE CHANGES AND [Part III. 

2 If we to-day sweet peace possess, 

It soon may be withdrawn ; 
Some change may plunge us in distress, 
Before to-morrow's dawn. 

3 Disease and pain invade our health, 

And find an easy prey ; 
And oft, when least expected, wealth 
Takes wings and fiies away. 

4 The gourds from which we look for fruit, 

Produce us often pain ; 
A worm unseen attacks the root, 
And all our hopes are vain. 

5 Since sin has filled the earth with woe, 

And creatures fade and die ; 
Lord, wean our hearts from things below, 
And fix our hopes on high ! 

263. 6L l. m. 

"The Fashion of the World passeth away." 
1 Cor. vii. 29-31. 

1 My soul ! spring up with ardent flight, 
Nor let this earth delude thy sight 

With glittering trifles, gay and vain : 
Wisdom divine directs thy view 
To objects ever grand and new, 

And faith displays the shining train. 

2 Be dead, my hopes, to all below ; 
Nor let unbounded torrents flow, 

When mourning o'er my withered joys : 
So this deceitful world is known ; 
Possessed, I call it not my own, 

Nor glory in its painted toys. 



Part III.] VANITY OF LIFE. 

3 The empty pageant rolls along ; 
The giddy, inexperienced throng 

Pursue it with enchanted eyes : 
It passeth in swift march away, 
Still more and more its charms decay, 

Till the last gaudy colour dies. 

4 My God ! to thee my soul shall turn ! 
For thee my noblest passions burn, 

And drink in bliss from thee alone : 
J fix on that unchanging home, 
Where never-fading pleasures bloom, 

Fresh-springing round thy radiant throne, 

264. L. M. 

Transporting view of Futurity. 

1 Arise, my soul, on wings sublime 
Beyond the vanities of time ; 
Remove the parting veil, and see 
The glories of eternity. 

2 Born by a new, celestial birth, 
Why should I grovel here on earth ? 
Why grasp at transitory toys, 

So near to heaven's eternal joys ? 

3 Shall aught beguile me on the road, 
While I am walking back to God ? 
For strangers into life we come, 
And death is but returning home. 

4 To dwell with God, to taste his love, 
Is the full heaven enjoyed above, 
And the sweet expectation now, 

Is the young dawn of heaven below. 



THE CHANGES AND [Part III. 

265. S. M. 

A timely Improvement of Life. Jer. xiii. & James iv. 

1 The swift-declining day, 
How fast its moments fly ! 

"While evening's broad and gloomy shade 
Gains on the western sky. 

2 Ye mortals ! mark its pace ; 
Improve the hours of light ; 

And know, your Maker can command 
An instantaneous night. 

3 His word blots out the sun 
In its meridian blaze ; 

And cuts from sanguine, vigorous youth 
The remnant of its days. 

4 On the dark mountain's brow 
Your feet shall quickly slide, 

And from its airy summit dash 
Your momentary pride. 

5 What most demands your care, 
O be it still pursued ! 

Lest slighted once, the season fair 
Should never be renewed. 

6 Then shall new lustre break 
Through horror's darkest gloom, 

And lead you to unchanging light, 
In a celestial home. 



Part III.] VANITY OF LIFE. 

266. l. m. 

Comparative Brevity of the longest Lifc. Gen. v. 27. 

1 Like shadows gliding o'er the plain, 
Or clouds that roll successive on, 
Man's busy generations pass, 

And while we gaze, their forms are gone. 

2 Vain was the boast of lengthened years ; 
The patriarch's full maturity ; 

'Twas but a larger drop to swell 
The ocean of eternity. 

" He lived, — he died ;" behold the sum, 
The abstract of th' historian's page ! 
Alike in God's all-seeing eye, 

The infant's day, the patriarch's age. 

4 O Father ! in whose mighty hand, 
The boundless years and ages lie ; 
Teach us thy boon of life to prize, 
And use the moments as they fly : 

5 To crowd the narrow span of life 
With wise designs and virtuous deeds ; 

So shall we wake from death's dark night, 
To share the glory that succeeds. 

267. l. m. 

The Wisdom of redeeming Time. Eph. v. 15, 16, 

1 God of eternity ! from thee 
Did infant time his being draw : 
Moments and days, and months and years, 
Revolve by thine unvaried law. 

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2 Silent and swift they glide away : 
Steady and strong the current flows, 
Lost in eternity's wide sea, 

The boundless gulph from which it rose. 

3 With it the thoughtless sons of men 
Before the rapid stream are borne, 
On to their everlasting home, 

That country whence there's no return. 

4 Yet while the shore on either side 
Presents a gaudy, flattering show ; 
We gaze in fond amazement lost, 
Nor think to what a world we go. 

5 Great source of wisdom! teach our hearts 
To know the price of every hour, 

That time may bear us on to joys 
Beyond its measure and its power. 

268. c. m. 

God's Compassion to human Frailty. Ps. ciii. 14. 

1 Thee we adore, eternal name ! 
And make that name our trust, 
Which raised at first this curious frame 
From mean and lifeless dust. 

2 Awhile these frail machines endure, 

The fabric of a day ; 
Then, know their vital powers no more, 
But moulder back to clay. 

3 Yet, Lord ! whate'er is felt or feared, 

This thought is our repose, 
That he by whom our frame was reared, 
Its various frailties knows. 



Part III.] VANITY OP LIFE. 

4 Thou view'st us with a pitying eye, 

While struggling with our load ; 
In pains and dangers thou art nigh, 
Our Father and our God. 

5 Gently supported by thy love, 

We tend to realms of peace ; 
Where every pain shall far remove, 
And every weakness cease. 

269. c. m. 

The Vanity of human Life. Ps. xc. 1-5. 

1 O God ! our help in ages past, 

Our hope for years to come, 
Our shelter from the stormy blast, 
And our eternal home ! 

2 Before the hills in order stood, 

Or earth received her frame, 
From everlasting thou art God, 
To endless years the same. 

3 Thy word commands our flesh to dust, 

" Return, ye sons of men : " 
And as from, earth all rose at first, 
Thither they turn again. 

4 A thousand ages in thy sight 

Are like an evening song, 
Short as the watch that ends the night, 
Before the rising sun. 

5 But like an ever-flowing stream, 

Time bears its sons away ; 
They fly forgotten, as a dream 
Dies at the opening day. 



THE CHANGES AND [Part III. 

6 O God ! our help in ages past, 
Our hope for years to come ; 
Be thou our guard while troubles last, 
And our eternal home. 

270. 6. I L. M. 
Solemn Reflections on the uncertainty of Life. 

1 When a few years, or days perhaps, 
Shall glide away in silent lapse, 

Time then to me shall be no more ; 
No more the sun these eyes shall view, 
Earth o'er these limbs her dust shall strew, 

And life's delusive dream be o'er. 

2 My God ! how awful is the scene ! 

A breath, a transient breath between, 
And can I waste life's fleeting day ? 
To earth, alas ! too firmly bound, 
Trees deeply rooted in the ground, 
Are shivered when they 're torn away. 

3 Great cause of all above, below ! 
Who knows thee, must forever know, 

Thou art immortal and divine : 
Thine image on my soul impressed, 
Of endless being is the test, 

And bids eternity be mine. 

271. L. M. 

The Frailty of Life, and the Unchangeableness o. Truth. 
Isa. xl. 6, 7, 8. 

1 The morning flowers display their sweets, 
And gay their silken leaves unfold, 
As careless of the noon-day heats, 
And fearless of the evening cold. 



Part III.] VANITY OF LIFE. 

2 Nipt by the wind's unkindly blast, 
Parched by the sun's directer ray, 
The momentary glories waste, 
The short-lived beauties die away. 

3 So blooms the human face divine, 
When youth its pride and beauty shows ; 
Fairer than spring the colours shine, 
And sweeter than the virgin rose. 

4 Or worn by slowly-rolling years, 
Or broke by sickness in a day, 
The fading glory disappears, 

The short-lived beauties die away. 

5 But these, new rising from the tomb, 
With lustre, brighter far, shall shine, 
Revive with ever-during bloom, 
Safe from diseases and decline. 

6 Let sickness blast and death devour, 
If heaven shall recompense our pains, 
Perish the grass and fade the flower, 
Since firm the word of God remains. 

272. l. m. 

Warnings of Mortality. 

1 That awful hour will soon appear, 
Swift on the wings of time it flies, 
When all that pains or pleases here, 
Will vanish from my closing eyes. 

2 Death calls my friends, my neighbours 
And none resist the fatal dart : [hence, 
Continual warnings strike my sense ; 
And shall they fail to strike my heart ? 



THE CHANGES AND [Part III. 

3 Think, O my soul ! how much depends 
On the short period of to-day : 

Shall time, which heaven in mercy lends, 
Be negligently thrown away ? 

4 Thy remnant minutes strive to use ; 
Awake ! rouse every active power ! 
And not in dreams and trifles lose 
This little, this important hour ! 

5 Lord of my life ! inspire my heart 
With heavenly ardour, grace divine ; 
Nor let thy presence e'er depart, 

For strength, and life, and death are thine. 

{y O teach me the celestial skill, 
Each awful warning to improve ! 
And, while my days are shortening still, 
Prepare me for the joys above ! 

273. l. m. 

Prospect of the real Christian. Ps. xvii. 

1 Lord, I am thine ; but thou wilt prove 
My faith, my patience, and my love ; 
Whatever the trial, I' 11 complain 

Of nought thy wisdom shall ordain. 

2 What sinners value, I resign : 

Lord ! 'tis enough that thou art mine : ' 

I shall behold thy blissful face, 

And stand complete in righteousness. 

3 This life's a dream, an empty show ; 
But the bright world to which I go, 
Hath joys substantial and sincere ; 
When shall I wake and find me there ! 



Part III.] VANITY OF LIFE. 

4 O glorious hour ! O blest abode ! 
I shall be near, and like my God ; 
And flesh and sin no more control 
The sacred pleasures of the soul. 

5 The change will come ; this active mind, 
To earth's dark scenes no more confined, 
Shall burst the chains with glad surprise, 
And in my Saviour's image rise. 

274. C. M. 

Encouragement to the suffering Christian. 

1 O there ? s a better world on high ; 

Hope on, thou pious breast ; 
Faint not, thou traveller ! on the sky 
Thy weary feet shall rest. 

2 Anguish may rend each vital part ; 

Poor man, thy strength how frail ; 
Yet heaven's own strength shall shield thy 
When flesh and heart shall fail, [heart, 

3 Through death's dark vale of deepest shade, 

Thy feet must surely go ; 
Yet there, e'en there, walk undismayed ; 
'Tis thy last scene of wo. 

4 Thy God, and with the tenderest hand, 

Shall guard the traveller through ; 
Hail ! shalt thou cry ; hail, promised land ! 
And wilderness, adieu ! 

5 O Father ! make our souls thy care, 

And bring us safe to thee ; 
Where'er thou art, we ask not where, — 
But there 'tis heaven to be. 



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275. 61. C. M. 



The Christian's cross and 



crown. 



Courage ! ye partners in distress, 
Who travelling through the wilderness, 

Its cares and sorrows feel ; 
Awhile forget your griefs and fears, 
And look beyond this vale of tears, 

To yon celestial hill. 

See Jesus there in triumph stands, 
Head of the church's sacred bands, 

Joined with th' angelic powers ; 
Lo ! all that height of glorious bliss 
Our everlasting portion is, 

And all that heaven is ours. 

Though suffering with our master here, 
We shall before his throne appear, 

And by his side sit down ; 
To patient faith the prize is sure, 
And they that to the end endure 

The cross, shall wear the crown. 

Thrice-blessed, soul-inspiring hope ! 
It lifts the fainting courage up, 

It brings to life the dead ; 
Our conflicts here shall soon be past, 
And all his people rise at last 

With their triumphant Head. 



Part III.] A FUTURE STATE. 

276. l. m. 

The Prospect of Sickness and Death. 

1 When all the powers of nature fail : 
When sickness shall our hearts assail. 
And every nobler part pervade ; 
When every earthly wish shall fade : 

2 When pain, of every nerve possest, 
Shall vibrate in the throbbing breast ; 
And languor o'er our senses steal. 
And medicine lose its power to heal : 

3 When our dim eyes are sunk in death, 
And God, who gave, shall take our breath, 
Do thou sustain our fainting heart, 

And comfort to our soul impart. 

4 May thy bright presence bring relief 
From fear, despondency, and grief: 
Directing, while it cheers, our way 
To realms of perfect, endless day. 

277. c. m. 

Comfort in Sickness and Death 

1 When sickness shakes the languid frame^ 

Each dazzling pleasure flies ; 
Phantoms of bliss no more obscure 
Our long-deluded eyes. 

2 Then the tremendous arm of death 

Its hated sceptre shows ; 
And nature faints beneath the weight 
Of complicated woes. 
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DEATH, JUDGMENT, AND [Part III. 

3 The tottering frame of mortal life 

Shall crumble into dust ; 
Nature shall faint — but learn, my sou 
On nature's God to trust. 

4 The man whose pious heart is fixed 

On his all-gracious God. 
In every frown may comfort find, 
And kiss the chastening rod. 

5 Nor him shall death itself alarm ; 

On heaven his soul relies ; 
With joy he views his Maker's love, 
And with composure dies. 

278. C. M. 

The Christian's Triumph over Death. 1 Cor. xv. 55, 

1 O for an overcoming faith, 

To cheer my d}nng hour. 
To triumph o 7 er the monster death, 
And all his frightful power. 

2 Joyful with all the strength I have, 

My quivering lips would sing, 
Where is thy boasted victory, grave ! 
O death ! where is thy sting ? 

3 Pardon and life, — how dear each word ! 

God life and pardon sends, 

And by our dying, rising Lord, 

Ensures to all his friends. 

4 All glory be to God on high, 

And endless thanks be paid, 
Who makes us conquerors though we die, 
Through Christ, our living Head. 



Pari III.] A FUTURE STATE. 

279. c. m. 

God, our Support in the hour of Death. Ps. xxxviii. 9, 10. 

1 My soul ! the awful hour will come, 

Apace it hastens on. 
To bear this body to the tomb, 
And thee to scenes unknown, 

2 My heart long labouring with its cares, 

Shall pant and sink away ; 
And you mine eye-lids soon shall close, 
On the last glimmering ray. 

3 Whence in that hour shall I derive 

A cordial for my pain, 
When if earth's princes were my friends, 
These friends would weep in vain ? 

4 Great king of nature and of grace ! 

To thee my spirit flies, 
And opens all its deep distress 
Before thy pitying eyes. 

5 All its desires to thee are known, 

And every, secret fear ; 
The meaning of each broken groan 
Is noticed by thine ear. 

6 O fix me by that might}" power 

Which to such love belongs. 
Wiiere darkness veils the eyes no more 
And sighs are changed to songs. 



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230. s. m. 

Triumph over Death, in Hope of the Resurrection. 

1 And must this body die ? 
This carious frame decay ? 

And must these active limbs of mine 
Lie mouldering in the clay ? 

2 Corruption, earth, and worms, 
Shall but refine this flesh, 

Till my triumphant spirit comes, 
To put it on afresh. 

3 God, my redeemer, lives, 
And ever from the skies, 

Looks down and watches all my dust, 
Till he shall bid it rise. 

4 Arrayed in glorious grace, 
Shall these vile bodies shine, 

And every form, and every face, 
Look heavenly and divine. 

5 These lively hopes we owe 
To Jesus' dying love ; 

We would adore his grace below, 
And sing his power above. 

6 O Lord, accept the praise 
Of these our humble songs, 

Till we a nobler strain shall raise 
From our immortal tongues. 



Part III.] A FUTURE STATE. 

281. c. m. 

God, the everlasting Light of good Men. Jsa. lx. 20. 

1 Ye golden lamps of heaven ! farewell, 

With all your feeble light : 
Farewell, thou ever-changing- moon, 
Pale empress of the night ! 

2 And thou, refulgent orb of day ! 

In brighter flames arrayed, 
My soul, which springs beyond thy sphere. 
No more demands thine aid. 

3 Ye stars are but the shining dust 

Of my divine abode, 
The pavement of those heavenly courts, 
Where I shall reign with God. 

4 The father of eternal light 

Shall there his beams display ; 
Nor shall one moment's darkness mix 
With that unvaried day. 

5 No more the drops of piercing grief 

Shall swell into mine eyes ; 
Nor the meridian sun decline, 
Amid those brighter skies, 

6 There all the millions of his saints 

Shall in one song unite ; 
And each the bliss of all shall share 
With infinite delight. 
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282. c. m. 

The earthly and heavenly Tabernacle. 2 Cor. v. 1-8. 

1 There is a house not made with hands. 

Eternal and on high ; 
And here my spirit trembling waits, 
Till God shall bid it fly. 

2 Shortly this prison of my clay 

Must be dissolved and fall ; 
Then, O my soul ! with joy embrace 
Th' Almighty Father's call. 

3 The glorious gospel of his grace 

Reveals this heaven to come; 
While beams of glory in his word, 
Allure and guide us home. 

4 Pure are the joys reserved above, 

And all the region peace ; 
No wanton lip or envious e} r e 
Can see or taste that bliss. 

5 Such are the hopes that cheer the just : 

These hopes their God hath given ; 
His spirit is the earnest now, 

And seals their souls for heaven. 

6 What faith rejoices to believe, 

Be ours the bliss to see ; 
We would be absent from the flesh, 
And present. Lord, with thee. 



Fart III.] A FUTURE STATE. 

283. C. M. 

Prospect of Heaven. 

1 Those happy realms of joy and peace. 

Fain would my heart explore, 
Where grief and pain forever cease, 
And 1 shall sin no more. 

2 No darkness there shall cloud the skies, 

No languor seize the frame ; 
But ever-active vigour rise 
To feed the vital llame. 

3 But ah ! a dreary vale between 

Extends its awful gloom ; 
Fear spreads, to hide the distant scene, 
The horrors of the tomb. 

4 O for the eye of faith divine 

To pierce beyond the grave ! 
To see that friend, and call him mine, 
Whose arm is strong to save ! 

5 Here fix, my soul ! for life is here ; 

Light breaks amid the gloom ; 
Trust in thy father's love, nor fear 
The horrors of the tomb. 

284. 6 1 C. M. 

The dying Saint. 

1 When life's tempestuous storms are o'er, 
How calm he meets the friendly shore, 

Who lived averse from sin ! 
Such peace on virtue's paths attends, 
That, where the sinner's pleasure ends, 

The christian's joys begin. 



DEATH, JUDGMENT, AND [Part III. 

2 See smiling patience smooth his brow ; 
See bending angels downward bow, 

To cheer his way on high ! 
While eager for the blest abode, 
He joins with them to praise the God, 

Who taught him how to die. 

2 No sorrow drowns his lifted eyes, 
No horror wrests the struggling sighs, 

As from the sinner's breast ; 
His God, the God of peace and love, 
Pours kindly solace from above, 

And sooths his soul to rest. 

4 O grunt, my Father, and my friend, 
Such joys may gild my peaceful end, 

So calm my evening close ; 
While loosed from every earthly tie, 
With steady confidence I fly 

To thee from whom I rose. 

285. c. m. 

The Peace of the Grave. Job iii. 17-20. 

1 How still and peaceful is the grave ! 

Where, life's vain tumults past, 
The appointed house, by heaven's decree, 
Receives us all at last. 

2 The wicked there, from troubling cease ; 

Their passions rage no more ; 
And there the weary pilgrim rests 
From all the toils he bore. 

3 There rest the prisoners, now released 

From slavery's sad abode : 
No more they hear the oppressor's voice. 
Nor dread the tyrant's rod. 



Part III.] A FUTURE STATE. 

4 There servants, masters, small and great, 

Partake the same repose ; 
And there in peace, the ashes mix 
Of those who once were foes. 

5 All levelled by the hand of death, 

Lie sleeping in the tomb ; 
Till God in judgment call them forth, 
To meet their final doom. 

286. c. h. 

" Blessed are the Dead which die in the Lord." Rev. xiv. 13. 

1 Hear what the voice from heaven pro- 

For all the pious dead ; [claims, 

Sweet is the savour of their names, 
And soft their dying bed. 

2 They sleep in Jesus and are blest ; 

How calm their slumbers are ! 
From sufferings and from sins released, 
And freed from every snare. 

3 Shall we then tremble to convey 

Their bodies to the tomb ? 
There the rich dust of Jesus la} r , 
And left a long perfume. 

4 The graves of all his saints he blest, 

And softened every bed ; 
Where should the dying members rest, 
But with the dying head ? 

5 Like him they wake to life anew ; 

And justified by grace, 
Shall stand complete in glory too, 
Before their Father's face. 



DEATH, JUDGMENT, AND [Part III. 

287. C M. 
The Creation, an Emblem of the Resurrection* 

1 All nature dies, and lives again : 

The flowers that paint the field, 
The trees that crown the mountain's brow, 
And boughs and blossoms yield ; 

2 Resign the honours of their form 

At winter's stormy blast ; 
And leave the naked, leafless plain, 
A desolated waste. 

3 Yet soon reviving plants and flowers 

Anew shall deck the plain ; 
The woods shall hear the voice of spring, 
And flourish green again. 

4 So to the dreary grave consigned, 

Man sleeps in death's dark gloom. 
Until the eternal morning wake 
The slumbers of the tomb. 

5 O may the grave become to us 

The bed of peaceful rest ; 
Whence we shall gladly rise at length, 
And mingle with the blest. 

5 Cheered by this hope, with patient mind 
We '11 wait heaven's high decree ; 
Till the appointed period come 
When death shall set us free. 



Part III.] A FUTURE STATE - . 

288. C. M. 

"This Mortal shall put on Immortality.'' 1 Cor. xv. 52-58. 

1 When the last trumpet's awful voice 

This rending earth shall shake ; 
The opening graves shall yield their charge, 
And dust to life awake : 

2 Those bodies that corrupted fell, 

Shall incorrupted rise ; 
And mortal forms shall spring to life 
Immortal in the skies. 

3 Behold ! what heavenly prophets sung, 

Is seen fulfilled at last ; 
Death his unbroken sway resigns, 
Which held the ages past. 

4 Let faith exalt her joyful voice, 

Let hope exulting sing : 
O grave ! where is thy triumph now ? 
O death ! where is thy sting ? 

5 Our God, whose name be ever blessed I 

Disarms that foe we dread ; 
And makes us conquerors when we die, 
Through Christ our living head. 

6 Then steadfast let us still remain, 

Though dangers press around ; 
And in the work prescribed by God, 
Yet more and more abound. 



DEATH, JUDGMENT, AND [Part III. 

239. l. m. 

The Resurrection of Jesus, the Pledge of ours. 1 Peter i. 3,- & 

1 Bless'd be the everlasting God, 

The Father of our Lord ; 
Be his abounding mercy praised, 
His majesty adored. 

2 When Jesus from the tomb arose, 

Ascending to the skies, 
The liveliest hope with us he left, 
That we should also rise. 

3 What though the feeble frame of man 

Returns to native dust; 
Since Christ, our pledge and pattern rose. 
So all his followers must. 

4 There's an inheritance divine, 

Reserved against that day : 
7 Tis uncorrupted, undented, 
And cannot fade away. 

5 Thy servants by thy power are kept, 

Till this deliverance come ; 
And walk by faith, as strangers here, 
Till thou shaft call them home. 

290. c. m. 

The great Consummation. 

1 Bright orb of heaven, thy circuit stay ! 
The Jewish victor cries : 
So shall at last an angel say, 
And rend it from the skies ! 



Part III.] A FUTURE STATE. 

2 A flame intenser than the sun 

Shall melt his golden urn ; 
Time's empty glass no more shall run. 
Nor human years return. 

3 Then,. with immortal splendour bright, 

That glorious orb shall rise, 
Which through eternity shall light 
The new-created skies. 

4 On the bright ranks of happy souls 

Those blissful beams shall shine ; 
While the loud song of triumph rolls, 
In harmony divine. 

5 O let not sordid, base desire, 

The souFs dark, rayless night 
Unfit us for that sacred choir, 
Or God's unchanging light ! 

291. L. M. 

The final Retribution. Dan. xii. 1, 2. 

1 The heart dejected, sighs to know, 
Why vice triumphant reigns below ; 
Why saints have fallen in every age, 
The victims of tyrannic rage. 

2 Fast roll successive years away ; 
Fast hastens the important day, 
When to th' astonished world's surprise, 
God's high tribunal shall arise. 

3 Hark! 'tis the trumpet's piercing sound, 
The rising dead assemble round ; 

In long procession see they come, 
Each to receive his final doom. 
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DEATH, JUDGMENT, AND [Part III. 

4 Lo there a vile, degenerate race ; 
Pale terror sits on every face : 
Here on the right, a joyful band, 
The sons of suffering virtue stand. 

5 The sentence passed, lo* these arise 
To bliss and glory in the skies : 

While those who once stood high in fame, 
Sink to contempt, remorse, and shame. 

6 Thus shall God's providence appear 
Without a shade, divinely fair ; 
And blushing doubt with joy confess 
The Lord's a God of righteousness. 

292. l. m. 

The Dissolution of the present State. 2 Peter iii. 11,12. 

1 Arise, my soul ! extend thy wings 
Beyond the verge of mortal things ; 
And meditate the awful day, 

When this vain world must pass away. 

2 Behold the fiery deluge roll [pole ! 
Through heaven's wide arch from pole to 
Pale sun — no more thy lustre boast! 
Tremble and fall, ye starry host ! 

3 The wreck of nature all around, 

The angel's shout, the trumpet's sound, 
Loud the descending Judge proclaim, 
And echo his tremendous name. 

4 Children of Adam, all appear ; 
The last decisive sentence hear ; 
For as his lips pronounce, ye go 
To endless bliss or unknown wo. 



Part III.] A FUTURE STATE. 

5 Lord ! to my eyes this scene display, 
Frequent through each returning day ; 
And let thy grace my soul prepare 
To find its full redemption there. 

293. l. m. 

The general Assembly of the Blessed. 

1 From north and south, from east and west, 
Advance the myriads of the blest : 

From every clime of earth they come, 
And find in heaven a common home. 

2 Howe'er divided here below, 

One bliss, one spirit now they know ; 
And all their doubts and darkness o'er, 
One only Parent now adore. 

3 On earth according to their light, 
They aimed to practise what was right ; 
Hence all their errors are forgiven, 
And Jesus welcomes them to heaven. 

4 See, how along the heavenly meads, 
His glorious host the Saviour leads, 
And brings the myriads none can count, 
To seats of joy on Zion's mount ! 

294. c. m. 

A Prospect of Heaven. 

1 There is a land of pure delight, 
Where saints immortal reign ; 
Infinite day excludes the night, 
And pleasures banish pain. 



DEATH, JUDGMENT, AND [Part III. 

2 There everlasting spring abides, 

And never-withering flowers : 

Death, like a narrow sea, divides 

This heavenly land from ours. 

3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood 

Stand dressed in living green : 
So to the Jews old Canaan stood, 
And Jordan rolled between. 

4 But timorous mortals start and shrink, 

To cross this narrow sea ; 
And linger, shivering on the brink, 
And fear to launch away. 

5 Oh ! could we make our doubts remove, 

Those gloomy doubts that rise, 
And see the Canaan that we love, 
With unbeclouded eyes ! 

6 Could we but climb where Moses stood, 

And view the landscape o'er, 
Not Jordan's streams, nor death's cold flood, 
Should fright us from the shore. 

295. s. m. 

Heaven. Rev. vii. 15-17. 

1 Far from these scenes of night 
Unbounded glories rise, 

And realms of infinite delight, 
Unknown to mortal eyes. 

2 Fair land ! could mortal eyes 
But half its charms explore, 

How would our spirits long to rise. 
And dwell on earth no more. 



Part III.] A FUTURE STATE. 

3 There sickness never comes ; 
There grief no more complains ; 

Health triumphs in immortal bloom, 
And purest pleasure reigns. 

4 No strife nor envy there 
The sons of peace molest ; 

But harmony and love sincere, 
Fill every happy breast. 

5 No cloud those regions know, 
Forever bright and fair ; 

For sin, the source of mortal wo, 
Can never enter there. 

6 There's no alternate night, 
Nor sun's faint sickly ray ; 

But glory from the eternal throne 
Spreads everlasting day. 

7 Oh ! may this prospect fire 
Our hearts with ardent love ; 

And lively faith and strong desire 
Bear every thought above. 

296. l. m. 

'leaven, the Reward of virtuous Exertions. Dan. xii. 3. 

1 There is a glorious world on high, 
Resplendent with eternal day ; 
Faith views the blissful prospect nigh, 
While God's own word reveals the way. 

2 There shall the servants of the Lord 
With never fading lustre shine ; 



DEATH, JUDGMENT, AND [Part III. 

Surprising honour ! vast reward ! 
Conferred on man, by love divine. 

3 Rescued from that destructive way, 
Where erring folly thoughtless roves ; 
The heavenly virtue they display, 
Which Jesus taught, and God approves. 

4 The shining firmament shall fade, 
And sparkling stars resign their light ; 
But these shall know nor change nor shade, 
Forever fair, forever bright. 

5 On wings of faith and strong desire, 
O may our spirits daily rise ; 

And reach at last the shining choir, 
In the bright mansions of the skies. 

297. l. m. 

Aspirations after Heaven. 

1 From this world's joys, and senseless mirth. 
O come, my soul, in haste retire ; 
Assume the grandeur of thy birth, 

And to thy destined heaven aspire. 

2 Here's nought below deserves delay ; 
Nought that can bribe thy swift remove ; 
No stable ground thy hopes to stay, 
Nor worthy object of thy love. 

3 O then forbear on transient things 
Thy hopes and fond desires to place ; 
Their gain no joy or comfort brings, 
And weary is the doubtful chase 



Part III.] A FUTURE STATE. 

4 : Tis heaven alone can make thee blest 
And every wish and want supply ; 
Thy crown of joy, thy endless rest, 
Are all above the lofty sky. 

5 There shall mortality no more 
Its wide-extended empire boast ; 
Forgotten all its dreadful power, 
In life's unbounded ocean lost. 



FART IV. 

FOR PARTICULAR OCCASIONS. 

298. L. M. 

For the Lord's Supper. 

This feast was Jesus' high behest 



This cup of thanks his last request : 
Ye who can feel his worth, attend, 
Eat, drink, in memory of your friend. 

2 Around the patriot's bust ye throng, 
Him ye exalt in swelling song: 

For him the wreath of glory bind, 
Who freed from vassalage his kind : 

3 And shall not he your praises reap, 
Who rescues from the iron sleep ? 
The great deliverer, whose breath 
Unbinds the captives e'en of death ? 

4 Shall he, who, fellow-men to save, 
Became a tenant of the grave, 
Unthanked, uncelebrated rise, 
Pass unremembered to the skies ? 

5 Christians ! unite with loud acclaim 
To hymn the Saviour's welcome name 
On earth extol his wondrous love ; 
Repeat his praise in worlds above. 



Part IV.] CHRISTIAN ORDINANCES. 

299. l. m. 

Fidelity to our Saviour. 

1 Canst thou, my soul ! forget that friend, 
On whom thy highest hopes depend ? 
Or shun the beams of heavenly day, 

To follow nature's feeble ray ? 

2 His words sustain the soul opprest, 
And soothe to peace the gailty breast ; 
To brighter prospects point the way, 
And turn the gloom of night to day. 

3 O think what power and love divine 
United in thy Saviour shine ; 

In him, whose name alone is given, 
To guide thee to the bliss of heaven, 

4 Forbid it, from this thoughtless heart 
His cherished image e'er should part ! 
Or earth again its thoughts ensnare, 
With him divided sway to share ! 

5 Forbid it, Author of my frame, 

O Thou, from whom my spirit came ! 
Thy son can endless life bestow ; 
And where beside then should I go ? 

300. C. M. 

Brotherly Kindness from the Precept and Example of 
Christ. 

1 Ye followers of the Prince of Peace, 
Who round bis table draw ! 
Remember what his spirit was, 
What his peculiar law. 



CHRISTIAN ORDINANCES. [Part IV 

The love, which all his bosom filled, 



Did all his actions guide ; 
Inspired by love, he lived and taught, 
Inspired by love, he died. 

3 Let each the sacred law fulfil ; 

Like his be every mind : 
Be every temper formed by love, 
And every action kind. 

4 Let none who call themselves his friends, 

Disgrace the honoured name ; 
But by a near resemblance prove 
The title which they claim. 

301. L. M. 

Invitation to the Lord's Supper. 

1 Father ! and is thy table spread ? 
And does thy cup with love o'erflow ? 
Thither be these thy children- led, 
And let them all its sweetness know. 

2 O let thy table honoured be, 

And furnished well with joyful guests; 
And may each soul salvation see, 
That here its sacred pledges tastes. 

3 Let crowds approach, with hearts prepared,. 
With warm desire let all attend ; 

Nor, when we leave our Father's board, 
The pleasure or the profit end. 

4 Revive thy dying churches, Lord ! 
And bid our drooping graces live ; 
And more that energy afford, 

A Saviour's death aLone can give. 



Part IV.] CHRISTIAN ORDINANCES. 

5 Nor let thy spreading gospel rest, 

Till through the world thy truth has run, 
Till with this bread all men be blest, 
Who feel the influence of the sun .! 

302. l. m. 

The Memorial of our absent Lord. 

1 Jesus is gone above the sky, 

Where our weak senses reach him not ; 

And earthly objects court our eye, 

To thrust the Saviour from our thought. 

2 He knows what treacherous hearts we have. 
Prone to forget his wondrous grace ; 

And kindly this memorial gave, 
Till we ascend to see his face. 

3 The Lord of life this table spread 
With tokens of his dying love ; 
And we who on its richness feed, 
A foretaste gain of joys above. 

4 Be sinful pleasures all forgot, 

And earth grow less in our esteem ; 
Christ and his love fill every thought, 
And faith and hope be fixed on him ! 

303. c. m. 

Dispositions proper for the Communion. 

1 O here, if ever, God of love ! 
Let strife and tumult cease ; 
And every thought harmonious move, 
And every heart be peace. 



CHRISTIAN ORDINANCES. [Part H . 

Not here, where met to think on him, 
Whose latest thoughts were ours, 

Shall mortal passions come to dim 
The prayer devotion pours. 

No, gracious Master, not in vain 

Thy life of love hath been ; 
The peace thou gav'st, may yet remain, 

Though thou no more art seen. 

" Thy kingdom come ;" we watch, we wait. 

To hear thy cheering call ; 
When heaven shall ope its glorious gate, 

And God be all in all. 

304. s. m. 

The Communion of Christians. 1 Cor. x. 16, IT. 

Jesus, the friend of man, 
Invites around his board, 
Those who his spirit share, to hold 
Communion with their Lord. 

Here we show forth that love, 
Which spake in every breath, 
Prompted each action of his life, 
And triumphed in his death. 

Our heavenly Father calls 
Christ and his members one ; 
Alike the children of his love, 
And he the first-born son. 

One faith, one hope, one Lord, 
One God alone we know ; 
Brethren we are ; let every heart 
With kind affections glow. 



Part IV.] CHRISTIAN ORDINANCES. 

5 Let all our powers unite, 
His honoured name to raise ; 

Let grateful joy fill every mind, 
And every voice be praise. 

6 Warmed with our Master's love, 
And God's unmeasured grace, 

O let our thankful hearts expand, 
And all mankind embrace. 

305. 8 & 7s. M. 
Practical Influence of the Lord's Supper Celebration. 

1 Bless the God of our salvation ; 
Triumph in redeeming love : 
Let us with glad exultation, 
Imitate the blest above. 

2 From the table now retiring, 
Which for us his love hath spread ; 
May our souls refreshment finding, 
Grow in all things like our head. 

3 His example by beholding, 
May our lives. his image bear ; 
Him our Lord and master calling, 
His commands may we revere. 

4 Love to God and man displaying, 
Walking steadfast in his way,— 
Peace attend us in believing ! 
Peace from God through endless day ! 

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CHRISTIAN ORDINANCES. [Part IV. 

306. l. m. 

"This do in remembrance of me." 1 Cor. xi. 24. 

" Eat, drink, in memory of your friend !" 
Such was our Master's last request ; 
Who all the pangs of death endured, 
That we might live forever blest. 

Yes, we '11 record the matchless love 
Of this, the kindest, first of friends ! 
Whose dying love the noblest praise 
That we can offer him, transcends. 

Now at his table we are met, 

His parting precept to fulfil ; 

Let not our hearts that love forget. 

Which warms his faithful bosom stiiL 

And thou, his Father and our own, 
Accept the humble songs we raise ; 
Still to our thankful spirits, known 
The object of our highest praise. 

Teach us in all he did, to see 
Inscribed the glories of thy name ; 
And let devotedness to thee, 
Our gratitude to him proclaim. 

307. s. m. 

Children offered to God. Mark x. 14. 

Lo ! Israel's shepherd stands, 
With all-engaging charms ; 
See, how he takes the tender lambs 
And folds them in his arms ! 



Part IV.] CHRISTIAN ORDINANCES. 

2 " Permit them to approach. 
Forbid them not," he cried ; 

" Of such my father's kingdom is, 
And such with him abide." 

3 We bring them, gracious Lord ! 
And yield them up to thee, 

Rejoiced that we ourselves are thine : 
Thine let our offspring be. 

4 Hear him, ye little flock ! 
Ye children ! seek his face, 

And fly with transport to receive 
The blessings of his grace. 

5 Tf orphans they are left, 
Thy guardian love we trust ; 

That love can heal our bleeding hearts 
When weeping o ? er their dust. 

308. s. m. 

The Promise is to you and your Children. Acts ii. 3 

1 Lord ! what our ears have heard, 
Our eyes delighted trace ; 

Thy love in long succession shown 
To every rising race. 

2 The promise, how divine, 
To Abram and his seed : 

" I '11 be a God to thee and thine, 
i; Supplying all their need." 

3 This wide-extensive love 
Shall to all time endure ; 

As ages past have ever found 
The promised blessing sure. 



Christmas and [Part IV. 

Thee shall the fathers own, 
And thee the sons adore ; 
Allied to God in solemn vows, 
To be forgot no more ; 

Thy covenant may they keep, 
And bless the happy bands, 
Which closer still engage their hearts 
To honour thy commands. 

To parents and thtir seed 
Let thy salvation come ; 
And numerous households meet at last 
In one eternal home. 



309. h m. 

Nativity of Christ. 

Hark ! what celestial sounds* 
What music fills the air ! 
Soft warbling to the morn, 
It strikes the ravished ear : 

Now all is still, 

Now wild it floats, 

In tuneful notes, 

Loud, sweet, and shrill. 

Th' angelic hosts descend, 
With harmony divine : 
See how from heaven they bend. 
And in full chorus join. 

Fear not, say they, 

Great joy we bring : 

Jesus your king 

Is born to day. 



Part IV.] CHARTXY OCCASIONS. 

3 He comes your souls to save 
From death's eternal gloom ; 
To realms of bliss and light 
He lifts you from the tomb. 

Your voices raise, 
With sons of light 
Your songs unite 
Of endless praise. 

4 Glory to God on high ! 

Ye mortals, spread the sound, 
And let your raptures fly 
To earth's remotest bound. 

For peace on earth, 

From God in heaven 

To man is given, 

At Jesus' birth, 

310. s. m. 

The Birth of Christ. 

1 Behold ! the grace appears, 
The blessing promised long ; 

Angels announce the Saviour near 
In this triumphant song : 

2 "Glory to God on high ; 

And heavenly peace on earth : 
Good-will to men, to angels joy, 
At the Redeemer's birth !" 

3 In worship so divine 

Let saints employ their tongues : 
With the celestial hosts we join, 
And loud repeat their songs : 

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CHRISTMAS AND [Part IV. 

4 Glory to God on high ! 

And heavenly peace on earth ; 
Good-will to men, to angels joy, 
At our Redeemers birth ! 

311. P. M. 

For a Christian Festival 

1 O thou ! from whom all blessings flow ; 
Whose goodness crowns the varied year. 
While nature's works thy bounty show, 
Let gratitude salute thee here ; 

Swell, gently swell the solemn song, 
Now pour the bounding notes along, 

Teach choirs below, to choirs above, 

To echo back the common lay, 

And, as they praise unbounded love, 

To join in bounty's holiday. 
To God, the universal king, 
Be sacred every grateful choir ! 
In ceaseless hymns, all praises sing, 
That endless bounty can inspire ! 

2 All lost, beneath stern winter's reign, 
Creation's genial powers appeared, 
Spring called them into life again, 

See, budding verdure shows they heard ; 
Bless, bless, O man ! the kind design, 
Whose nobler counter-part is thine ! 
Thy powers a gloomier winter froze, 
Till thy Messiah's cheering ray, 
Prolific of fair truth arose, 
And shed the blaze of mental day. 
To God the universal king, Sic. 



Part IV.] CHARITY OCCASIONS. 

3 All spotless, as the truth he brought, 
Free, as the mercy he displayed, 
His life all human duty taught, 
In each divinest grace arrayed ; 

Each precept thus enforced, he gave 
His precious life the world to save. 
O thou, whose heavenly mercy sent 
Thy son to bless a sinful race ; 
Let every heart with one consent 
Adore thy free, thy wondrous grace. 
To God, the universal king, 
Be sacred every grateful choir ! 
In ceaseless hymns all praises sing, 
That endless mercy can inspire. 

312. c. m. 

For a charitable Occasion. 

1 What shall we render, God of love ! 

For all the grace we see ? 
The best requital man would give, 
Can never reach to thee. 

2 Our offering is a willing mind 

To comfort the distrest ; 
In others' griefs, our own to find, 
In others' blessings, blest. 

3 To tents of wo, to beds of pain, 

Our cheerful feet repair ; 
And, with the gifts thy hand bestows. 
Relieve the mourners there. 

4 The widow's heart shall sing for joy; 

The orphan shall be glad ; 
And hungering souls we'll gladly point 
To Christ, the living bread. 



CHRISTMAS and [Part IV 

5 Thus what our heavenly Father gave, 

Shall we as freely give ; 
Thus copy him who lived to save, 
And died that we might live. 

6 While, passing through this vale of tears, 

Our useful light shall shine ; 
And others learn to glorify 
Our Father's name divine. 

313. 8 & 7s. M. 
For an Orphan and Widow Institution. 

1 Lord of life, all praise excelling, 

Thou, in glory unconfined, 
Deign'st to make thy humble dwelling 

With the poor of humble mind. 
As thy love through all creation, 

Beams like thy diffusive light ; 
So the scorned and humble station 

Rises in thine equal sight. 

2 Thus thy care for all providing, 

Warmed thy faithful prophet's tongue : 
Who the lot of all deciding, 

To thy chosen Israel sung : 
When thine harvest yields thee pleasure, 

Thou the golden sheaf shall bind ; 
To the poor belongs the treasure 

Of the scattered ears behind. 

3 When thy olive plants increasing, 

Pour their plenty o'er thy plain, 

Grateful thou shalt take the blessing, 

But not search the bough again. 



Part IV.] CHARITY OCCASIONS. 

When thy favoured vintage flowing. 
Gladdens thy autumnal scene, 

Own the bounteous hand bestowing, 
But thy vines the poor shall glean. 

4 Still we read thy words declaring 

Mercy, Lord, thine own decree; 
Mercy every sorrow sharing, 

Warms the heart resembling thee. 
Still the orphan and the stranger, 

Still the widow owns thy c^re, 
Screened by thee in every danger, 

Heard by thee in every prayer. 

314. L. M. 

The Rewards of Beneficence. Ps. xli. 

1 Blest is the man, whose heart is kind ? 
And melts in pity to the poor ; 

Who with a sympathizing mind, 
Feels what his fellow-men endure. 

2 His heart contrives for their relief 
More good than his own hands can do ; 
He in the time of general grief, 

Shall find the Lord hath pity too. 

3 This man shall live secure on earth 
With secret blessings on his head, 
While sword or pestilence or dearth 
Around him multiply their dead. 

4 Or if with mortal sufferings tried, 
Sufferings shall all his soul refine ; 
Sweet hope his refuge shall provide, 
And minister a bliss divine. 



Christmas and [Part IV. 

315. 6. I. L. M. 

Charity. Mat. xxv. 34. 

O ye, who seek Jehovah's face, 
Bow at his throne, and feel his grace, 
Who ask in prayer, and own in praise, 
That bounteous love which gilds your days, 
Catch from above the hallowed flame, 
And dignify the christian name. 

Where'er distress and pain appear, 
Let pity's ready hand be there ; 
With cheering wine, and fragrant oil, 
Bid languor glow, and anguish smile : 
Tho' wo her lowliest form may wear, 
Yet God has stampt his image there. 

When he, the sovereign Judge draws nigh ; 
And holds th' unerring beam on high ; 
Then shall sweet charity prevail, 
And angels mark the sinking scale : 
Jesus shall call his followers home, 
"Ye blessed of my Father, come !" 

316. c. m. 

For a Sunday School. 

Hear, Lord ! the song of praise and prayer, 

In heaven thy dwelling place, 
From children made the public care, 

And taught to seek thy face ! 



Part IV.] CHARITY OCCASIONS. 

2 Thanks for thy word, and for thy day ; 

And grant us, we implore, 
Never to waste in sinful play 
Thy holy sabbaths more. 

3 Thanks that we hear, — but O impart 

To each, desires sincere, 
That we may listen with our heart, 
And learn, as well as hear ! 

4 Wisdom and bliss thy word bestows, — 

A sun that ne'er declines ; 
And countless blessings rest on those, 
Who placed us where it shines ! 



317. H. M. 

God our Preserver in a sickly Season. Ps. cxxi. 

1 Upward we lift our eyes, 
From God is all our aid ; 
The God who built the skies, 
And earth's foundations laid. 

God is the tower 
To which we fly ; 
His grace is nigh 
In every hour. 

2 Our feet shall never slide, 
Nor fall in fatal snares, 

Since God our guard and guide, 
Defends us from our fears. 
Those wakeful eyes, 
That never sleep, 
Thy servants keep, 
When dangers rise. 



funeral occasions. [Part IV. 

3 No burning heats by day, 
Nor blasts of evening air, 
Shall take our health away 
If God be with us there. 

Thou art our light, 
And thou our shade, 
To guard our head 
By noon or night. 

4 Hast thou not given thy word 
To save our souls from death ? 
And we can trust thee, Lord, 
To keep our mortal breath : 

We'll go and come, 
Nor fear to die, 
Till from on high 
Thou call us home. 

318. L. M. 

God our Refuge in prevalent Diseases and Dangers. 
Ps. xci. 1-7. 

1 He that hath made his refuge God, 
Shall find a most secure abode ; 
Shall walk all day beneath his shade, 
And there at night shall rest his head. 

2 If burning beams of noon conspire 
To dart a pestilential fire, 

God is his life ; his wings are spread 
To shield him with a healthful shade, 

3 If vapours with malignant breath 
Rise thick and scatter mid night-death, 
Still he is safe ; the poisoned air 
Again grows pure, if God be there. 



Part IV.] FUNERAL OCCASIONS. 

4 But if the fire, or plague, or sword. 
Receive commission from the Lord, 
To strike his saints among the rest, 
Their very pains and deaths are blest, 

5 The sword, or pestilence, or fire, 
Shall but fulfil their best desire : 
From sins and sorrows set them free, 
And bring thy children, Lord, to thee. 

319. c. m. 

Hope in the Death of Friends. 

1 While to the grave our friends are borne, 

Around their cold remains, 
How all the tender passions mourn, 
And each fond heart complains ! 

2 But down to earth, alas, in vain 

We bend our weeping eyes ; 
Ah ! let us leave these seats of pain, 
And upwards learn to rise. 

3 Hope cheerful smiles amid the gloom, 

And beams a healing ray : 
And guides us from the darksome tomb, 
To realms of endless day. 

4 Be thou our comfort, mighty God ! 

Our helper and our friend : 
Nor leave us in this dangerous road, 
Till all our trials end. 

5 O may our feet pursue the way 

Our pious fathers led ; 
While love and holy zeal obey 
The counsels of the dead. 



funeral occasions. [Part IV. 

Let us be weaned from all below ; 

Let hope our grief dispel ; 
And death but find us trained to go 

Where our best kindred dwell. 



320. c. m. 






The Reunion of virtuous Friends after Death. 

1 Blest hour, when virtuous friends shall 

Shall meet to part no more, [meet, 

And with celestial welcome, greet 
On an immortal shore. 

2 The parent finds his long-lost child ; 

Brothers on brothers gaze ; 
The tear of resignation mild 
Is changed to joy and praise. 

3 Each tender tie dissolved with pain. 

With endless bliss is crowned ; 
All that was dead, revives again, 
All that was lost, is found. 

4 And while remembrance, lingering still. 

Draws joy from sorrowing hours ; 
New prospects rise, new pleasures fill 
The souPs expanded powers. 

5 Congenial minds arrayed in light, 

High thoughts shall interchange ; 
Nor cease with ever-new delight, 
On wings of love to range. 

6 Their father marks their generous flame. 

And looks complacent down ; 
The smile that owns their filial claim, 
Is their immortal crown. 



Part IV.] FUNERAL OCCASIONS. 

321. L. M. 

A Funeral Hymn. 

1 Thou, God of mercy ! wilt indulge 
The flowing tear, the heaving sigh, 
When righteous persons tall around, 
When tender friends and kindred die. 

2 Yet not one anxious, murmuring thought 
Should with our mourning passions blend 
Nor should our bleeding hearts forget 
Th 7 almighty, ever-living friend. 

3 Beneath a numerous train of ills, 
Our feeble flesh and heart may fail ; 
Yet shall our hope in thee, our God, 
O'er every gloomy fear prevail. 

4 Parent, Protector, Guardian, Guide ! 
Thou art each tender name in one ; 
On thee we cast our every care, 
And comfort seek from thee alone. 

3 Our father God ! to thee we look, 
Our rock, our portion, and our friend ! 
And on thy gracious love and truth. 
Our sinking souls shall still depend. 

322. c. m. 

On the Death of a Child. 

1 Life is a span, a fleeting hour ; — 
How soon the vapour flies ! 
Man is a tender, transient flower, 
That e'en in blooming dies. 



funeral occasions. [Part IV 

2 The once-loved form, now cold and dead, 

Each mournful thought employs ; 
And nature weeps, her comforts fled, 
And withered all her joys. 

3 But wait the interposing gloom, 

And lo ! stern winter flies ; 
And dressed in beauty's fairest bloom, 
The flowery tribes arise. 

4 Hope looks beyond the bounds of time, 

When what we now deplore, 

Shall rise in full immortal prime, 

And bloom, to fade no more. 

5 Then cease, fond nature ! cease thy tears : 

Religion points on high, 
There everlasting spring appears, 
And joys that cannot die. 

323. l. m. 

A Funeral Hymn. 

1 Unveil tlry bosom, faithful tomb ! 
Take this new treasure to thy trust ; 
And give these sacred relics room 
To slumber in thy silent dust. 

2 No pain, no grief, no anxious fear, 
Invade thy bounds; no mortal woes 
Can reach the peaceful sleeper here, 
W hile angels watch its soft repose. 

3 So Jesus slept ; God's dying son, [bed ; 
Passed through the grave and blessed the 
Then rest, dear saint, till from his throne, 
The morning break, and pierce the shade. 



Pait IV.] CHANGES OF THE YEAR. 

4 Break, sacred morning, from the skies ! 
Then, clothed anew in bright array, 
Immortal form ! to life arise, 
And swell the song of endless day. 



324. c. m. 

Spring. 

1 While beauty clothes the fertile vale, 

And blossoms on the spray, 
And fragrance breathes in every gale, 
How sweet the vernal day ! 

2 How kind the influence of the skies ! 

Soft showers, with blessings fraught, 
Bid verdure, beauty, fragrance rise, 
And fix the roving thought. 

3 O let my wondering heart confess, 

With gratitude and love, 
The bounteous hand that deigns to bless 
The garden, field, and grove. 

4 That bounteous hand my thoughts adore, 

Beyond expression kind, 
Hath sweeter, nobler gifts in store, 
To bless the craving mind. 

5 Inspired to praise, I then shall join 

Glad nature's cheerful song ; 
And love and gratitude divine, 
Attune my joyful tongue. 
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CHANGES OP THE YEAR. [Part IV. 

325. c. m. 

Seed-time and Harvest. Ps. lxv. 

1 The rising morn, the closing day, 
Repeat thy praise with grateful voice ; 
Both in their turns thy power display, 
And laden with thy gifts rejoice. 

2 Earth's wide-extended, varying scenes, 
All smiling round, thy bounty show ; 
From seas or clouds, full magazines, 
Thy rich diffusive blessings flow. 

3 Now earth receives the precious seed, 
Which thy indulgent hand prepares ; 
And nourishes the future bread, 
And answers all the sower's cares. 

4 Thy sweet, refreshing showers attend, 
And through the ridges gently flow, 
Soft on the springing corn descend ; 
And thy kind blessing makes it grow. 

5 Thy goodness crowns the circling year, 
Thy paths drop fatness all around ; 
E'en barren wilds thy praise declare, 
And echoing hills return the sound. 

6 Here spreading flocks adorn the plain ; 
There, plenty every charm displays ; 
Thy bounty clothes each lovely scene, 
And joyful nature shouts thy praise. 



Pill't IV.] CHANGES OP THE YEAK. 

326. c. m. 

The Providence of God in the Seasons. 

1 The rolling year. Almighty Lord ! 

Obeys thy powerful nod ; 
Each season, as it silent moves, 
Declares the present God. 

2 Waked by thy voice, blooms forth the 

In living verdure drest ; [spring, 

On hills, in vales, through fields and groves, 
Thy beauties stand confest. 

3 The sun calls forth the summer months, 

Nor do the hours delay ; 
The fruits with varied colours glow 
Beneath his ripening ray. 

4 Thy bounty, Lord ! in autumn shines, 

And spreads a general feast ; 
In which thy creatures all partake, 
The greatest and the least. 

5 When winter rears her hoary head, 

And shows her furrowed brow, 
In storms and tempests, frosts and snows ; 
How awful, Lord, art thou ! 

C The rolling year, Almighty Lord ! 

Obeys thy powerful nod ; 

Each season as it silent moves, 

Declares the present God. 



CHANGES OF THE YEAR. [Part IV. 

327. l. m. 

The Goodness of God in the Seasons. 

Great God ! at whose all-powerful call, 
At first arose this beauteous frame, 
By thee the seasons change, and all 
The changing seasons speak thy name. 

Thy bounty bids the infant year, 
From winter storms recovered, rise ; 
When thousand grateful scenes appear, 
Fresh opening to our wondering eyes. 

O how delightful 'tis, to see 
The earth in vernal beauty drest ! 
While in each herb, and flower, and tree, 
Thy bright perfections shine confest ! 

Aloft., full beaming, reigns the sun, 
And light and genial heat conveys ; 
And, while he leads the seasons on, 
From thee derives his quickening rays. 

Around us, in the teeming field, 

Stands the rich grain, or purpled vine ; 

At thy command they rise to yield 

The strengthening bread, or cheering wine, 

Indulgent God ! f om ever}- part, 
Thy plenteous blessings largely flow ; 
We see — we taste — let every heart 
With grateful love and duty glow. 



l'ai't IV.] CHANGES OF THE YE Ait. 

323. 10 & llS. M. 
For new Year's Day. Ps. cxxxvi. 

1 House of our God, with cheerful anthems 

ring, 

"While all our lips and hearts his graces sing; 
The opening year his bounties shall proclaim, 
And all its days be vocal with his name. 
The Lord is good, his mercy never-ending, 
His blessings in perpetual showers descending. 

2 Thou earth, enlightened by his rays divine, 
Pregnant with grass and corn and oil and 

wine ; 
Crowned with his goodness, let the nations 

meet, 
And lay their crowns at his paternal feet ; 
With grateful love, that liberal hand confessing, 
Which thro' each heart diffuseth every blessing. 

3 His mercy never ends ; the dawn, the shade, 
Still see new beauties through new scenes dis- 
played ; 

Succeeding ages bless this sure abode, 
And children lean upon their father's God. 
The soul of man, through its immense duration, 
Drinks from this source, immortal consolation. 

4 Burst into praise, my soul ! all nature join ; 
Angels and men, in harmony combine : 
While human \ T ears are measured by the sun, 
And while eternity its course shall run, 

His goodness in perpetual showers descending, 
Exalt in songs and raptures never-ending. 



CHANGES OF THE YEAR. [Part IV. 

329. l. m. 

Lift! precarious. Jer. xxviii. 16. 

1 God of our lives ! thy constant care 
With blessings crowns each opening year ; 
These lives so frail, thy love prolongs, 
And wakes anew our annual songs. 

2 What numbers in the little space, 
Have vacant left on earth their place, 
Since, from this day, the changing sun 
Through his last yearly course has run. 

3 We yet survive ; but who can say, 

Or through the year, or month, or day, 
Secure from the attack of death, 
1 will retain this vital breath ? 

4 That breath is always in thy hand, 
And stays or goes at thy command ; 
We hold our lives from thee alone, 
Their limits all to us unknown. 

5 To thy disposal we resign ; 

Let life while it but lasts be thine ; 
Then shall we smile, secure from fear, 
Though death should blast the opening 
year. 

330. c. m. 

Reflections on the Waste of Years. Ps. xc. 9. 

1 Remark, my soul, the narrow bounds 
Of the revolving year ; 
How swift the weeks pursue their rounds ! 
How short the months appear ! 



Part IV.] CHANGES OF THE YEAR. 

2 So fast eternity comes on, 

And that important day, 
When all that mortal life has done, 
God's judgment shall survey. 

3 These eyes so long in darkness veiled; 

Must wake his face to see ; 
And every word and every thought, 
Must pass his scrutiny. 

4 Yet like an idle tale we pass 

The swift advancing year ; 
And study artful ways t ? increase 
The speed of its career. 

5 Waken, O God, this trifling heart, 

Its great concern to see ; 
That I may act the christian part, 
And give the year to thee. 

6 Thus shall their course more grateful roll. 

If future years arise ; 
Or this shall bear my peaceful soul, 
To joy that never dies. 

331. c. m. 

Serious Reflections on our moral Condition. 

1 And now, my soul, another year 

Of my short life is past ; 
I cannot long continue here, 
And this may he my last. 

2 Part of my doubtful life is gone, 

Nor will return again ; 
And swift my fleeting moments; run — 
The few which yet remain ! 



changes of the yeah. [Part IV. 

3 Awake, my soul ! with all thy care 

Thy true condition learn ; 
What are thy hopes, how fair, how sure, 
And what thy great concern ? 

4 Awake to serious, anxious thought : 

The months gone by review : 
What good, what evil hast thou done, 
What work remains to do ? 

5 How is thy debt of love increased 

To that sustaining power, 
Which hath upheld thy feeble steps 
And brought thee to this hour ! 

f> To him then give thy remnant life, 
And on his grace depend : 
He 7 11 guide thee on the heavenly road 
To its triumphant end. 

332. l. m. 

The Vanity and Frailty of human Life. Ps. xxxbr. 

1 Our life advancing to its close, 

While scarce its earliest dawn it knows, 
Swift through an empty shade we run, 
And vanity and man are one. 

2 How many e ? en in youth's gay flower, 
Brief pageants of the noontide hour, 
Have faded in their brightest bloom, 
The early tenants of the tomb ! 

2 O how thy chastisements impair 
The human form, however fair ! 
How frail the strongest frame we see, 
When thou dost man to death decree .' 



Part IV.] CHANGES OF THE YEAR. 

4 As when the fretting moths consume 
The curious labour of the loom, 
The texture fails, the dyes decay, 
And all its lustre fades away. 

5 God of my fathers ! here, as they, 
I walk the pilgrim of a day, 

A transient guest — thy works admire, 
And instant to my home retire. 

6 O Lord of life and seasons ! we 
Our sole reliance place on thee : 
In thee we trust with holy fear, 

And bless thee for the new-born year 

333. 7s. M. 

Reflections on the closing Year. 

1 Lo ! another year is gone ! 
Quickly have the seasons passed ; 
That we enter soon upon, 

AVill to many prove their last : 
Hopes and joys of this year o ? er, 
If it brought or promised good, 
It is now our own no more, 
Than the years beyond the flood. 

2 Some, — we now no longer see, 
Who their mortal course have run, 
Seemed as fair for life as we, 
When the passing year begun : 
Some, — but who God only knows, 
That are here assembled now. 
Ere the opening year shall close, 
To the common doom must bow. 

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CHANGES OP THE YEAR. [Part IV". 

3 If from guilt and sin set free, 
By the knowledge of thy grace, 
Welcome then the call will be 
To depart and see thy face : 
To thy saints while here below, 
With new years new mercies come, 
But the happiest year they know, 
Is their last that leads them home. 

334. 7s. m. 

Close of the Year. 

1 While with ceaseless course, the sun 
Hasted through the closing year, 
Many souls their race have run, 
Never more to meet us here ! 
Finished here probation's day, 
They have done with all below ; 
We a little longer stay ; 

But how little, none can know. 

2 As the winged arrow flies 
Quick the destined mark to find ; 
As the lightning from the skies 
Darts, and leaves no trace behind: 
So our brief and transient days 
Bear us down life's rapid stream ; 
Upward, Lord, our spirits raise ; 
All below is but a dream. 

S Thanks for mercies past receive, 
Pardon of our sins renew ; 
Teach us by tlvv grace to live, 
With eternity in view. 



Part IV.] public occasions. 

Bless thy word to young and old ; 
Grant us, Lord, thy peace and love 
And, when life's short tale is told, 
Take us to thy bliss above. 



335. l. m. 

Public Humiliation. 

1 Great framer of unnumbered worlds, 
And whom unnumbered worlds adore ! 
Whose goodness all thy creatures share, 
While nature trembles at thy power : 

2 Thine is the hand that moves the spheres, 
That wakes the wind and lifts the sea ; 
And man, who moves the lord of earth, 
Acts but the part assigned by thee. 

3 Lord, while thy judgments shake the land, 
Thy people's eyes are fixed on thee, 
Thy just, uplifted arm we own, 

Which thousands cannot, will not see. 

4 And though injustice grind the poor, 
Or avarice stain the sordid hand ; 
Though stern ambition thirst for blood, 
Or rude oppression waste the land ; 

5 Yet hear th' assemblies of thy saints, 
Who meet to mourn, confess, and pray ; 
The country and the churches spare, 
Nor let thy face be turned away. 

C O may our land in this her hour, 
Submissive own thy chastening rod ; 
Then shall thy banner o'er her seen. 
Proclaim again her guardian God. 



public past. [Part IV. 

336. c. m. 

Penitent Humiliation. 

1 O God of grace ! oft has our land 

Been like a burning brand ; 
Snatched from the fierce surrounding flame 
By thy indulgent hand. 

2 But have we learned thy name to fear, 

Thy mercy to improve ? 
Have we been drawn to keep thy laws, 
By all these cords of love ? 

3 Or when on days like these we've mourned 

Our sins and pardon prayed, 
Have we not soon forgot our vows, 
And far as ever strayed ? 

4 Too deeply conscious, though again 

Our suppliant eyes we raise, 
Shouldst thou refuse the help we ask, 
We justify thy ways. 

5 But, O thou God of perfect grace ! 

Here all our comfort lies, — 
The truly broken, contrite heart, 
Thou never wilt despise. 

6 But while in this eternal truth 

Refuge alone we find, 
Let the blest hope we wish to form. 
To faithful duty bind. 



Part IV.] AND THANKSGIVING. 



337. 



L. M. 



For a Fast-day in time of War. 

1 While sounds of war are heard around, 
And death and ruin strew the ground ; 
To thee we look, on thee we call, 
The parent and the Lord of all ! 

2 Thou, who hast stamped on human kind 
The image of a heaven-born mind, 
And in a father's fond embrace 

Hast cherished all the kindred race ; 

3 O see, with what insatiate rage, 
Thy sons their impious battles wage, 
How spreads destruction like a flood, 
And brothers shed their brothers' blood ! 

4 See guilty passions spring to birth, 
And deeds of hell deform the earth ; 
While righteousness and justice mourn, 
And love and pity droop forlorn. 

5 Great God ! whose powerful hand can bind 
The raging waves, the furious wind, 

O bid the human tempest cease, 

And hush the maddening world to peace. 

6 With reverence may each hostile land 
Hear and obey that high command, 
Thy son's blest errand from above, 

" My creatures, live in mutual love." 

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public past [Part IV. 

338. S. M. 

The Designs of Providence in the Changes and Revolutions of 
the World. 

1 God to correct the world, 
In wrath is slow to rise : 

But comes at length in thunder clothed. 
And darkness veils the skies. 

2 His banners, lifted high, 
The nation's God declare : 

And stained with blood, with terrors marked, 
Spread wonder and despair. 

3 All earthly pomp and pride 
Are in his presence lost : 

Empires overturned, thrones, sceptres, 
. In wild confusion tost. [crowns. 

4 While war and wo prevail, 
And desolation wide 

In God, the sovereign Lord of all, 
The righteous still confide. 

5 Mysterious is the course 
Of his tremendous way : 

His path is in the trackless winds, 
And in the foaming sea. 

6 Yet, though now wrapt in clouds, 
And from our view concealed : 

The righteous Judge will soon appear, 
In majesty revealed ! 

7 He'll curb the lawless power, 
The deadly wrath of man : 

And all the windings will unfold 
Of his own gracious plan. 



Part IV.] AND THANKSGIVING. 

339. l. m. 

Praise for the Return of Peace. Ps. xlvi. 

1 Great ruler of the earth and skies, 
A word of thine almighty breath 
Can sink the world or bid it rise ; 
Thy smile is life, thy frown is death. 

2 When angry nations rush to arms, 
And rage, and noise, and tumult reign, 
And war resounds its dire alarms, 
And slaughter dyes the hostile plain : 

3 Thy sovereign eye looks calmly down, 
And marks their course and bounds their 

power ; 
Thy law the angry nations own, 
And noise and war are heard no more. 

4 Then peace returns with balmy wing ; 
Reviving commerce spreads her sails ; 
The fields are green, and plenty sings 
Responsive o'er the hills and vales. 

5 Thou kind, and wise, and righteous Lord. 
All move subservient to thy will ; 

Both peace and war await thy word, 
And thy sublime decrees fulfil. 

6 To thee we pay our grateful songs, 
Thy kind protection still implore : 

O may our hearts, and lives, and tongues, 
Confess thy goodness, and adore ! 



Public past [Part IV. 

340, c. m. 

Foi the original Settlement of New England, 

1 Father supreme of heaven and earth ! 

Creative source of all ! 
Whence infant nations spring to birth, 
And empires rise and fall ; 

2 Thy throne above the circling spheres. 

Shall stand, though centuries roll ; 
Nor boundless space nor endless years, 
Can limit thy control ! 

3 To him from whom our blessings flow, 

Who all our wants supplies. 
This day the choral song and vow 
From grateful hearts shall rise ! 

4 'Twas he who led the pilgrim band 

Across the stormy sea ; 
'Twas he who stayed the tyrant's hand, 
And set an empire free ! 

5 When shivering on a strand unknown. 

In sickness and distress, 
Our Father looked to God alone, 
To save, protect, and bless ! 

6 Be thou our nation's strength and shield, 

In manhood, as in youth ; 
Thine arm for our protection wield, 
And guide us by thy truth ! 



Part IV.] AND THANKSGIVING. 

341. 61. L. M. 

Thanksgiving for national Prosperity. 

1 How rich thy gifts, almighty King ! 
From thee our public blessings spring : 

Th' extended trade, the fruitful skies. 
The treasures liberty bestows, 
Th' eternal joys the gospel shows, 

All from thy boundless goodness rise. 

2 Here commerce spreads the wealthy store 3 
Which pours from every foreign shore ; 

Science and art their charms display ; 
Religion teaches us to raise, 
Our voices to our Maker's praise, 

As truth and conscience point the way. 

3 With grateful hearts, with joyful tongues, 
To God we raise united songs ; 

His power and mercy we proclaim, 
This land through every age shall own, 
Jehovah here has fixed his throne, 

And triumph in his mighty name. 

4 Long as the moon her course shall run, 
Or man behold the circling sun, 

O still may God amidst us reign ; 
Crown (far just counsels with success, 
With peace and joy our borders bless, 

And all our sacred rights maintain. 



PUBLIC THANKSGIVING [Part IV 

342. l. m. 

The Year crowned with Goodness. Ps. lxv. 11. 
For a new Year, or annual Thanksgiving. 

1 Eternal source of every joy ! 
Well may thy praise our lips employ ; 
While in thy temple we appear, 
Thy goodness crowns the circling year. 

2 Wide as the wheels of nature roll, 
Thy hand supports the steady pole : 
By thee the sun is taught to rise, 
And darkness when to veil the skies. 

3 The flowery spring, at thy command, 
Embalms the air, and paints the land ; 
The summer suns with vigour shine, 
To raise the corn and cheer the vine. 

4 Thy hand in autumn richly pours 
Thro ? all our coasts redundant stores ; 
And winters, softened by thy care, 
No more a face of horror wear. 

5 Seasons, and month, and weeks, and days, 
Demand successive songs of praise ; 

Still be the cheerful homage paid, 
With morning light and evening shade ! 

6 O may our more harmonious tongues 
Hereafter join in nobler songs; 
And in those brighter courts adore, 
Where days and years revolve no more ! 



Part IV.] FOR A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY. 

343. L. M. 

Consecration of a Church. 

1 And wilt thou, great and glorious God ! 
Regard us from thy radiant throne, 
On earth establish thine abode, 

And choose this temple as thine own ? 

2 While to thy name these courts we rear, 
Long may they echo with thy praise ; 
And thou, descending, grant us here 
To see thy reconciled lace. 

3 While life eternal all pursue, 
May the unerring way be shown, 
To know thyself the only true, 
And Jesus Christ, thy chosen son. 

4 May truth with sweet resistless force 
Hither constrain her guests to come ; 
Arrest the sinner's downward course, 
And bring tlry children to their home. 

5 Long may thy light and truth remain 
To bless this place when we are gone, 
And myriads here be born again, 
The heirs of glory round thy throne. 

344. c. m. 

Dedication or Ordination Hymo. 

1 Arise, O God of grace ! arise, 
And enter to thy rest ; 
Lo ! thy church waits with longing eyes. 
Thus to be owned and blessed. 



FOR A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY. [Part IV 

2 Enter with all thy glorious train. 

Thy spirit and thy word ; 
All that the ark did once contain, 
Could no such grace afford. 

3 Here, mighty God ! accept our vows ; 

Here let thy praise be spread ; 

Bless the provision of thine house, 

And fill thy poor with bread. 

4 Here let the son of David reign, 

Let God's anointed shine ; 
Justice and truth his court maintain, 
With love and power divine. 

5 Here let him hold a lasting throne ; 

And as his kingdom grows, 
Fresh honours shall adorn his crown, 
And shame confound his foes. 

345. l. m. 

At the Settlement of a Minister. 

1 Great Lord of angels ! we adore 

The grace that builds thy courts below ; 
And midst ten thousand sons of light, 
Stoops to regard what mortals do. 

2 Amidst the wastes of time and death, 
Successive pastors thou dost raise, 
Thy kingdom and thy truth to spread. 
And form a people for thy praise. 

3 At length, dismissed from feeble clay, 
Thy servants join th ? angelic band ; 
With them thro' distant worlds they fly, 
With them before thy presence stand. 



Part IV.] FOR A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY. 

4 O blest employment ! glorious hope ! 
Sweet lenitive of grief and care ! 

When shall we reach those radiant courts, 
And all iheir joys and honours share ? 

5 Yet while these labours we pursue, 
Tho' distant from thy heavenly throne, 
Give us a zeal and love like theirs, 

And half their heaven shall here be known. 

346. l. m. 

On the dangerous Sickness of a Minister. 

* 1 O thou, before whose gracious throne 
We bow our suppliant spirits down, 
Thou know'st the anxious cares we feel, 
And all our trembling lips would tell. 

2 Thou only canst assuage our grief, 
And give our sorrowing hearts relief: 
In mercy then thy servant spare, 
Nor turn aside thy people's prayer. 

3 Avert thy desolating stroke, 

Nor smite the shepherd of the flock ; 
Restore him, sinking to the^grave, 
Stretch out thine arm, make haste to save. 

4 Bound to each soul by tender ties, 
In every heart his image lies ; 
Thy pitying aid, O God, impart, 

Nor rend him from each bleeding heart. 

5 But if our supplications fail, 

And prayers and tears cannot prevail, 
Be thou his strength and thou his stay, 
Through death's dark vale to endless day. 



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347. c. m. 

For a vacant Congregation on the Death of its Minister. 

1 Though earthly shepherds dwell in dust 
The aged and the young ; 
The watchful eye in darkness closed, 
And mute th' instructive tongue : 

5 Th' immortal shepherd still survives, 
New comfort to impart ; 
His eye still guides us, and his voice 
Still animates our heart. 

3 To him when mortal comforts fail, 

His suppliant people fly ; 

And on his ever-watchful care, 

With cheerful hope rely. 

4 The powers of nature, Lord, are thine : 

And thine the aids of grace : 
Thine arm has borne thy churches up, 
Through every rising race. 

5 Exert thy sacred influence here, 

Tlry mourning servants bless : 
O change to strains of cheerful praise 
Their accents of distress. 



348. l. m. 

Family Duties and Blessings. Gen. xviii. il ! . 

1. Father of men ! thy care we bless, 
Which crowns our families with peace : 
From thee they sprung, and by thy hand. 
Their root and branches are sustained. 



Part IV.] PRIVATE DEVOTION. 

2 To God most worthy to be praised, 
Be our domestic altars raised ; 

Though Lord of heaven, he deigns to dwell 
With saints in their obscurest cell. 

3 To thee may each assembled house 
Morning and night, present its vows ; 
And servants with the rising race 

Be taught thy precepts and thy grace. 

4 Then shall the charms of wedded love, 
Still more delightful blessings prove : 
And parents' hearts shall overflow 
With joys that parents only know. 

5 When nature droops, our aged eyes 
Shall see our children's children rise ; 
Till pleased and thankful we remove, 
And join the family above. 

349. c. m. 

Secret Devotion. Matt. vi. 6. 

1 Father divine ! thy piercing eye 

Shoots through the shades of night ; 
In deep retirement thou art nigh, 
With heart-discerning sight. 

2 There shall that piercing eye survey 

My duteous homage paid, 
With every morning's dawning ray, 
And every evening's shade. 

3 I'll leave behind each earthly care ; 

To thee my soul shall soar ; 
While grateful praise and fervent prayer 
Employ the silent hour. 



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So shall the visits of thy love 

My soul in secret bless ; 
So shalt thou deign, in worlds above, 

Thy suppliant to confess. 



350. 



C. M. 



God may be worshipped in every Place. 

1 The highest heaven cannot contain 

The universal Lord ; 
Yet he in every heart will deign 
To dwell, and be adored. 

2 Where'er ascends the sacrifice 

Of fervent praise and prayer, 
Or on the earth or in the skies, 
The God of heaven is there. 

3 His presence is diffused abroad [known ; 

Through realms, through worlds un- 
Who seek the mercies of our God, 
Are ever near his throne. 

4 With fervour teach our hearts to pray, 

With grateful joy to sing ; 
Nor from thine altar cast away 
The sacrifice we bring. 

351. c. m. 

Privation of Sanctuary Privileges lamented. Ps. xUi. 1-a. 

1 O the abundance of thine house, 
The rich enjoyments there ! 
To live an exile from thy courts, 
How shall my spirit bear ! 



Part IV.] PRIVATE DEVOTION. 

2 In worship when I joined thy saints, 

How sweetly passed my days ! 
Prayer my divine employment then. 
And all my pleasure praise. 

3 With those that to thy house resort, 

My sacrifice was paid ; 
And there my zeal fulfilled the vows 
My soul in anguish made. 

4 But now I ? m lost to every joy, 

Because detained from thee ; 
Those golden moments ne'er return, 
Or ne'er return to me. 

5 Yet O, my soul ! why thus depressed, 

And whence this anxious fear ? 
Let former kindness fix thy trust, 
And check the rising tear. 

6 When darkness and when sorrows rose, 

And pressed on every side, 
Did not the Lord sustain thy steps, 
And was not God thy guide ? 

352. c. m. 

Religions Education. 

I When opening life its scenes unfolds, 
So dazzling and so new ; 
What hopes illume each coming day, 
And brighten every view ! 

'2 How shall th' untutored mind of youth 
Elastic and elate, 
Discern the perils and the griefs 
Which after life await ? 



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3 O may it be a parent's joy 

Their heedless steps to lead ; 
And save them from the thousand snares 
By ill example spread. 

4 The counsels of thy faithful word 

Shall ma"ke their duty known ; 
And mould and regulate the hearts 
To earthly follies prone. 

5 Here may thy youthful servants leara 

Timely to cleanse their way ; 

And steadfastly pursue the path 

Which guides to endless day. 

6 Their ripening years let mercy wait, 

Nor let it wait in vain ; 
But form in them abundant fruit, 
And still this fruit maintain. 

353. s. m. 

Fervent Attachment to the Cause of Christ professed. 

1 1 love thy Zion, Lord ! 
The place of thine abode ; 

The church, the blest Redeemer saved 
With his own precious blood. 

2 I love thy church, O God ! 
Her walls before thee stand, 

Dear as the apple of thine eye. 
And graven on thine hand. 

3 If e'er to bless thy sons 
My voice or hands dcm r , 

These hands let useful skill fotsake, 
This voice in silence die. 



Part IV.] PRIVATE DEVOTION. 

4 If e'er my heart forget 
Her welfare or her wo ; 

Let every joy this heart forsake 
And every grief overflow. 

5 For her my tears shall fall, 
For her my prayers ascend ; 

To her my cares and toils be given. 
Till cares and toils shall end. 

354. c. m. 

Heavenly Wisdom. Prov. Hi. 13. 17. 

1 O happy is the man who hears 

Instruction's faithful voice ; 
And who, celestial wisdom makes 
His early, only choice ! 

2 Wisdom has treasures greater far 

Than east or west unfold ; 
And her rewards more precious are 
Than is the gain of gold. 

3 In her right hand she holds to view 

A length of happy years ; 
And in her left the prize of fame 
And honour bright appears. 

4 She guides the young, with innocence, 

In pleasure's path to tread ; 
A crown of glory she bestows 
Upon the hoary head. 

5 According as her labours rise, 

So her rewards increase ; 
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, 
And all her paths are peace. 



domestic and [Part IV. 

355. s. m. 

The Voice of Wisdom. Prov. i. 20-26. 

1 Hark ! it is wisdom's voice 
That spreads itself around ; 

Come hither, all ye sons of earth, 
And listen to the sound. 

2 What though she speaks rebukes 
That pierce the soul with smart ; 

Yet love through all her chastenings runs, 
By pain to mend the heart. 

3 Ye who have wandered long 
In sin's destructive ways ; 

Return, return, at my reproof, 
And seize the offered grace. 

4 Profusely I will pour 
My spirit from above, 

To arm you with superior strength, 
And melt your hearts to love. 

5 Come, whilst my offers last, 
Ye sinners, and be wise ; 

He lives, who hears this friendly call, 
But he that slights it, dies ! 

356. S. M. 

Domestic Affection founded on Piety. Ps. cxxxiii. 

1 Blest are the sons of peace, 

Whose hearts and hopes are one ; 
Whose kind designs to serve and please, 
Through all their actions run. 



Part IV.] PRIVATE DEVOTION. 

2 Blest is the pious house, 
Where zeal and friendship meet : 

Their praise devout, and mingled prayers. 
Make their communion sweet. 

3 From those celestial springs, 
Such streams of comfort flow, 

As no increase of riches brings, 
Nor honours can bestow. 

4 All in their stations move, 
And each performs his part, 

In all the cares of life and love, 
With sympathizing heart : 

5 Formed for the purest joys, 
By one desire possest ; 

One aim the zeal of all employs, 
To make each other blest. 

6 Thus on the heavenly hills 
The saints are blest above ; 

Where joy like morning dew distils. 
And all the air is love. 

357. l. m. 

Christian Friendship. 

1 How blest the sacred tie that binds 
In union sweet according minds ! 

How swift the heavenly course they run, 
Whose hearts, and faith, and hopes are one ! 

2 To each, the soul of each, how dear ! 
What jealous love, what holy fear ! 
How doth the generous flame within 
Refine from earth, and cleanse from sin ! 



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3 Their streaming eyes together flow 
For human guilt and mortal woe ; 
Their ardent prayers together rise 
Like mingling flames in sacrifice. 

4 Together shall they seek the place 
Where God reveals his awful face : 

How high, how strong, their raptures swell, 
There 7 s none but kindred souls can tell. 

5 Nor shall the glowing flame expire 
When nature droops her sickening fire ; 
Then shall they meet in realms above, 
A heaven of joy — because of love. 

358. l. m. 

For the Decay of the Year, or of human Life. 

1 The man whose faith and hope are strong, 
And free from vexing cares his mind, 

As changing seasons pass along, 
Can in them all fresh pleasures find. 

2 The man whose faculties are sound, 
His heart upright, and conscience clean, 
With tranquil mind can pass his round 
Of life, in every shifting scene. 

3 Not only in his youthful prime, 
And while his powers continue firm, 
But when he feels th ? effect of time, 
And age prepares him for the worm : 

4 Grateful for every blessing past, 
Patient in every present ill ; 

And on whatever ground he ? s placed, 
Hope does with pleasing prospects till. 



Part IV.] PRIVATE DEVOTION. 

359. l. m. 

A happ3 7 Life. 

1 How happy is he born and taught, 
Who serveth not another's will ; 
Whose armour is his honest thought, 
And simple truth, his utmost skill ! 

2 Whose passions not his master's are, 
Whose soul is still prepared for death. 
Untied to this vain world by care 

Of public fame, or private breath : 

3 Who hath his life from rumours freed, 
Whose conscience is his strong retreat ; 
Whose state can neither flatterers feed, 
Nor ruin make oppressors great : 

4 Who God doth late and early pray 
More of his grace than gifts to lend ; 
To crave for less and more obey, 

Nor dare with heaven's high will contend. 

5 This man is freed from servile bands 
Of hope to rise or fear to fall : 
Lord of himself, though not of lands. 
And, having nothing, yet hath all. 

360. c. m. 

On recovering from a dangerous Sickness. 

1 My God ! thy service well demands 
The remnant of my days ; 
Why was this fleeting breath renev/ed 
But to renew thy praise ? 



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Thine arms of everlasting love 

Did this weak frame sustain, 
When life was hovering o'er the grave, 

And nature sunk in pain. 

Calmly I watched my ebbing life, 

I knew thy time was best, 
Nor feared t' obey my Father's call, 

To his eternal rest. 

Into thy hands, my gracious God, 

Did I my soul resign, 
And humbly trusted in thy grace, 

For pardoning love is thine. 

Back, from the borders of the grave, 

At thy command I come ; 
Nor would I wish a speedier flight 

To my celestial home. 

Where thou appointest mine abode, 

There would I choose to be ; 
For in thy presence death is life. 

And earth is heaven with thee. 

361. s. m. 

Prayer is Sickness. 

My sovereign ! to thy throne, 
With humble hope I press ; 
O bow thine ear to hear the groan 
Of anguish and distress. 

My life bowed down with pain, 
Mourns its decaying bloom ; 
O clothe these bones with flesh again, 
And save me from the tomb. 



Part IV.] PRIVATE DEVOTION. 

3 Without one murmuring word, 
Thy chastening I receive ; 

But with submission ask, O Lord i 
A merciful reprieve. 

4 Distressed and pained as now, 
Thine aid I once implored ; 

Thy pity heard my earnest vow, 
Thy power my health restored. 

5 My supplicating voice, 
Unwearied 1 will raise ; 

Say to thy servant's soul, " Rejoice," 
And fill my mouth with praise. 

362. c. m. 

In a Thunder Storm. 

1 Let coward guilt, with pallid fear, 

To sheltering caverns fly, 
And justly dread the vengeful fate, 
That thunders through the sky. 

2 Protected by that hand whose law 

The threatening storms obey. 
Intrepid virtue smiles secure 
As in the blaze of day. 

3 In the thick cloud's tremendous gloom, 

The lightning's lurid glare, 
It views the same all-gracious Power, 
That breathes the vernal air. 

4 Through nature's ever-varying scene. 

By different wa}'s pursued, 
The one eternal end of Heaven, 
Is universal good. 
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5 With like beneficent effect 

O'er flaming ether glows. 
As when it tunes the linnet's voice, 
And blushes in the rose. 

6 When through creation's vast expanse, 

The last dread thunders roll, 
Untune the concord of the spheres, 
And shake the guilty soul : 

7 Unmoved may we the final storm 

Of jarring worlds survey, 
That ushers in the tranquil morn 
Of life's eternal day. 

363. c. m. 

Ifyinn for the Mariner or Traveller. Ps. cvii. 

1 Let songs of praise from all below 

To thee, O God, ascend, 
Whose bounties unexhausted flow, 
Whose mercies know no end. 

2 But chief by them that debt be paid, 

Midst dangers circling round, 
Who still in thine almighty aid 
Have sure protection found. 

3 The wandering exile, doomed to stray 

O'er many a desert wide ; 
Who fearless takes his lonely way, 
With thee his guard, and guide : — 

4 The sailor on the swelling sea, 

When storms impending lower, 

Or tempests rage ; who trusts in thee. 

And owns thy mighty power : — 



Part IV.] PRIVATE DEVOTION. 

5 The wretch, who pressed by countless woes. 

That no cessation see, 
Still bids his steadfast hope repose, 
Almighty Lord, on thee : 

6 All, all shall join to bless thy name, 

Whose heavenly aid they prove ; 
As all have felt, let all proclaim 
Thy goodness, power, and love I 

364. l. m. 

The daily Goodness of God. 

1 My God ! how endless is thy love ! 
Thy gifts are every evening new ; 
And morning mercies from above, 
Gently distil like early dew. 

2 Thou spread'st the curtains of the night, 
Great Guardian of my sleeping hours ! 
Thy sovereign word restores the light, 
And quickens all my drowsy powers. 

3 O let thy love surround me still ; 
O let thy truth my heart employ, 
And bring me to thine holy hill, 
O thou, my everlasting joy ! 

4 I yield my powers to thy command ; 
To thee I consecrate my days ; 
Perpetual blessings from thy hand 
Demand perpetual songs of praise 



domestic and [Part IV. 

365. l. m. 

Guidance through the Duties of the Day implored. Ps. xix. 

1 God of the morning ! at thy voice 
The cheerful sun makes haste to rise, 
And like a giant doth rejoice 

To run his journey through the skies. 

2 From the fair chambers of the east 
The circuit of his race begins ; 
And without weariness or rest, 

Round the whole world he flies and shines. 

3 Thus like the sun may I fulfil 
Th' appointed duties of the day ; 
With ready mind and active will, 
March on and keep my heavenly way. 

4 Lord ! thy commands are clear and pure, 
Enlightening our beclouded eyes ; 

Thy threatenings just, thy promise sure ; 
Thy gospel makes the simple wise. 

5 Give me thy counsel for my guide, 
And then receive me to thy bliss : 
Let all desires and hopes beside, 

Be faint and cold compared with this. 

566. L. M. 

A Morning Hymn. 

1 With sleep's oblivion o'er me spread, 
I safely passed the silent night : 
Again I see the breaking shade, 
I drink again the morning light. 



Part IV.] PRIVATE DEVOTION. 

2 New-born, I bless the waking hour ; 
Once more, with awe, rejoice to be ; 
IV! y conscious soul resumes her power, 
And springs, my guardian God ! to thee, 

S O guide me through the various maze 
My doubtful feet are doomed to tread ; 
And spread thy shield's protecting blaze 
Where dangers press around my head. 

4 A deeper shade shall soon impend, 
A deeper sleep my eyes oppress ; 

Yet then thy strength shall still defend, 
Thy goodness still delight to bless. 

5 That deeper shade shall break away, 
That deeper sleep shall leave my eyes ; 
Thy light shall give eternal day ; 

Thy love, the rapture of the skies. 

367. c. m. 

A Morning Hymn. 

1 To thee let my first offerings rise, 

Whose sun creates my day, 
Swift as his gladdening influence flies^ 
And spotless as his ray. 

2 This day thy favouring hand be nigh. 

So oft vouchsafed before ; 
Still may it lead, protect, supply, 
And I that hand adore. 

3 If good thy providence impart. 

For which resigned I pray, 
Give me to feel the grateful heart. 
And without guilt be gay. 
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4 Affliction should thy love intend, 
As sin or folly's cure ; 
Patient to gain that blessed end, 
May I the means endure. 

3 If bright or cloudy scenes await, 
Some profit let me gain ; 
That heaven nor high, nor low estate 
May send to me in vain. 

6 Be this and every future da}', 
Still wiser than the past ; 
That from the whole of life's survey, 
I may find peace at last. 

368. l. m. 

A Morning Hymn. 

1 Awake, my soul ! and with the sun 
Thy daily stage of duty run ; 
Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise 
To pay thy morning sacrifice. 

2 By influence of the light divine 

Let thine own light to others shine ; 
Reflect all heaven's propitious rays, 
In ardent love and cheerful praise. 

3 Lord ! I my vows to thee renew, 
Scatter my sins as morning dew ; 

Guard my first springs of thought and will, 
And with thyself my spirit fill. 

4 Direct, control, suggest, this day, 
All I design, or do, or say ; 

That all my powers, with all their might, 
In thy sole glory may unite. 



Part IV.] PRIVATE DEVOTION. 

5 All praise to thee who safe hast kept, 
And hast refreshed me while I slept ; 

grant when I from death shall wake, 

1 may of endless life partake. 

369. c. m. 

Morning or Evening Hymn. 

1 Lord of my life ! each morn on thee 

My waking thoughts attend ; 
In thee are founded all my hopes, 
In thee my wishes end. 

2 My soul, in pleasing wonder lost, 

Thy boundless love surveys ; 
And, fired with grateful zeal, prepares 
A sacrifice of praise. 

3 God leads me thro ? the maze of sleep, 

And brings me safe to light ; 

And, with the same paternal care, 

Conducts my steps till night. 

4 When evening slumbers press my eyes, 

With his protection blest, 

In peace and safety I commit 

My weary limbs to rest. 

5 My spirit, in his hand secure, 

Fears no approaching ill ; 
For, whether waking or asleep, 
Thou, Lord, art with me still. 

6 O let this day each hour correct, 

The follies of the past, 
And such may all its actions be, 
As would adorn the last. 



bomestic and [Part IV, 

370. l. m. 

An Evening Hymn. 

1 Glory to thee, my God ! this night, 
For all the blessings of the light : 
Keep me, O keep me, King of kings ! 
Beneath thine own Almighty wings ! 

2 Forgive whatever I've said or done 

Or felt or thought this day that 's wrong ; 
That with the world, myself, and thee, 
I, e'er I sleep, at peace may be. 

3 Teach me to live, that I may dread 
The grave as little as my bed : 
Teach me to die, that so 1 may 
With joy behold the judgment day. 

4 O may ray soul on thee repose, 

And with sweet sleep mine eyelids close.; 
Sleep that shall me more active make 
My God to serve, when I awake. 

5 If death itself my sleep invade, 
Why should I be of death afraid ? 
Protected by thy powerful arm, 

Though death may strike, he cannot harm. 

6 For death is life, and labour rest, 
If with thy gracious presence blest : 
Then welcome sleep or death to me, 
I'm still secure, for still with thee. 



I'ait IV.] PRIVATE DEVOTION. 

371. L. M. 

Ad Evening Hymn. 

1 Thus far, thou, Lord ! hast led me on ; 
Thus far thy power prolongs my days 5 
And every evening shall make known 
Some fresh memorial of thy grace. 

2 Much of my time has run to waste, 
And I perhaps am near my home ; 
Thou wilt forgive my follies past, 
And give me strength for days to come* 

3 I lay my body down to sleep ; 
Peace is the pillow of my head ; 
Thine ever-watchful eye shall keep 
Its constant guard around my bed. 

4 Faith in thy name forbids my fear : 
O may thy presence ne'er depart ! 
And in the morning may I bear 
Thy loving-kindness on my heart ! 

5 Thus when the night of death shall come, 
My frame shall rest beneath the ground ; 
And wait thy voice to break my tomb. 
With sweet salvation in the sound. 

372. 7s. m. 

Meditations in the night Season. Ps. Ixiii. 6. 

1 What though downy slumbers flee, 
Strangers to my couch and me ; 
While with God's protection blest, 
Cares and fears ne'er haunt my breast. 



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2 While the empress of the night 
Scatters mild her silver light ; 
While the vivid planets stray 
Various through their mystic way : 

3 While the stars unnumbered roll 
Round the ever-constant pole ; 
Far above these spangled skies, 
All my soul to God shall rise. 

4 Midst the silence of the night 
Mingling with those angels bright, 
Whose harmonious voices raise 
Ceaseless love and ceaseless praise 5 

5 Midst the throng his gentle ear 
Shall my grateful accents hear : 
From on high will he impart 
Secret comfort to my heart : 

6 Lifting all my thoughts above 
On the wings of faith and love : 
Blest alternative to me, 

Thus to sleep, or wake with thee * 



ASCRIPTIONS AND BENEDICTIONS. 



1 . 8 & 7s. M. 

Praise to thee, thou great Creator, 

Praise to thee from every tongue ; 
Join, my soul, with every creature, 

Join the universal song : 
For ten thousand blessings given, 

For the hope of future joy ; 
Sound his praise through earth and heaven, 

Sound Jehovah's praise on high. 

2. s. m. 

1 To God the only wise, 

Our saviour and our king, 
Let all the saints below the skies 

Their grateful homage bring. 

May he present our souls 

Unblemished and complete, 
Before the glory of his face 

With joys divinely great. 

3. L. M. 

O may we live before thy face, 
The willing subjects of thy grace, 
And through each path of duty move, 
With filial awe and filial love. 



ASCRIPTIONS AND BENEDICTIONS. 

4. 8 & 7s. m. 

Lord ! dismiss ns with thy blessing. 

Hope and comfort from above ; 
Let us each., thy peace possessing, 

Triumph in redeeming love. 
Thanks we give and adoration, 

For thy gospel's joyful sound ; 
May the fruits of thy salvation 

In our hearts and lives abound. 

5. L. M. 

To thee, supreme, the ever-blest, 
Be praise in thankful notes addrest ; 
Such as the stars of morning sung, 
When earth was on its balance hung : 
Such praise as from th ? angelic choirs, 
And saints whom zeal like theirs inspires. 
In heaven above, and earth below, 
Still Hows, and shall forever flow. 



M. 



Blest are the souls that hear and know 

The. gospel's joyful sound ; 
Peace shall attend the path they go. 

And light their steps surround : 
The Lord, our glory and defence, 

Strength and salvation gives ; 
Christians ! thy Saviour ever reigns. 

Thv God forever lives. 



ASCRIPTIONS AND BENEDICTION*. 



7. 7s. m. 

Glorious in thy saints appear, 
Plant thy heavenly kingdom here ; 
Light and life to all impart, 
Shine on each believing heart, 
And in every grace complete, 
Make us, Lord ! for glory meet, 
Till we stand before thy sight, 
Partners with the saints in light. 

8. L. M. 

From all that dwell below the skies, 
Let the Creator's praise arise ! 
Let the Redeemer's name be sung, 
Through every land, by every tongue. 
Unceasing are thy mercies, Lord ! 
Unchanging truth attends thy word, 
Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, 
Till suns shall rise and set no more. 



Pity thine erring world, O God ! 

Constrain the earth to come ; 
Send thy victorious word abroad, 

And bring the strangers home : 
We long to see thy churches full, 

That all thy chosen race 
May with one voice, and heart, and soul, 

Sing thy redeeming grace. 
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ASCRIPTIONS AND BENEDICTIONS. 

10. 8 & 7s. M. 

Thou, whose light hath heamed so brightly 

O'er thy erring world below : 
Let it guide our footsteps rightly 

Through these scenes of guilt and woe : 
Grant thy spirit ! by thy kindness 

Let our follies be forgiven : 
Heal our sins, dispel our blindness ; 

Let us find the path to heaven. 

11. 7s. M. 

1 Thou, who dost our powers sustain, 
While we in thy courts remain ; 
Grant us separate still to share, 
Thy paternal smile, and care. 
Here again we fain would raise, 
Our united prayers and praise ; 
If that joy no more be known, 
Let us meet around thy throne. 

12. 8 & 7s. M. 

1 Gracious source of every blessing, 

Guard our breasts from anxious fear- ; 
Let us each thy care possessing, 

Sink into the vale of years : 
All our hopes on thee reclining, 

Peace, companion of our way : 
May our sun in smiles declining. 

Rise, in everlasting day. 






ANTHEM 

Holy, Holy, Holy, 
Lord God Almighty ! 
Thou to whom alone are 
All praise and glory due ! 

Holy, Holy, Holy, 
Lord God Almighty ! 
Father everlasting ! 
Righteous, just, and true ! 

Bending down before thee, 
Lo ! thy sons adore thee, 
Heart and voice declaring 

Jehovah is thy name : 
Winds in tempests blowing, 
Waves o'er ocean flowing, 
To remotest regions 

Thy might and power proclaim. 

In the heaven's expansion 
Thou hast fixed thy mansion, 
Clouds of endless glory 

Encompassing thy throne 
Heard but in thy thunders ! 
Seen but in thy wonders ! 
Through eternal ages 

Thou art God alone. 



ANTHEM. 

; Tis thy breath informs us, 
7 Tis thy spirit warms us, 
If thy face be turned 

We should cease to be ! 
Height nor depth oppose thee, 
Trembling nature knows thee, 
Through the vast creation 

There is none but thee ! 

Holy, Holy, Holy, 
Lord God Almighty ! 
Thou to whom alone are 
All praise and glory due ! 

Holy, Holy, Holy, 
Lord God Almighty ! 
Father everlasting ! 
Righteous, just, and true ! 









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